Lord Kamina Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Hey everyone... I'm finishing up on a new build (due to my old motherboard dying on me) I've got an i7-3770, Asrock Z77 OC Formula and a GTX980. I can't boot with the 980. It was working just fine with the old motherboard (an MSI p67a). Now, if I use nv_disable, it boots ok (without acceleration obviously) and if i use NvidiaWeb, I get a black screen (with no errors, and there is actually a signal being sent to the display; it's just blank), and the machine doesn't finish booting up (I know because I can't VNC into it). All this is to say that no, it is NOT the AGDP issue. I'm using iMac13,2 SMBIOS. Today this happened and I left it like that a while to see if it ever finished up booting (seeing as I'd read about people experiencing long boot-times on a black screen) but after a while I had to turn it off because, I {censored} you not, there was smoke and the smell of burnt plastic. I have no idea _what_ burnt, the only symptom I've seen so far is the BIOS doesn't recognize HDs plugged into the Marvell SATA3 controllers (but Windows sees the drives, so I don't think they actually died, or the ports, for that matter) Needless to say, I haven't attempted to boot Sierra again. Any ideas? 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/319701-a-_different_-web-drivers-black-screen-on-boot-issue/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kamina Posted December 28, 2016 Author Share Posted December 28, 2016 PSA: This issue was apparently caused by ASPM. I managed to boot normally by ticking the DisableASPM option in Clover Configurator. Still, if anybody has something to contribute, I'd be glad to hear it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/319701-a-_different_-web-drivers-black-screen-on-boot-issue/#findComment-2340834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
namvan Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 have you tried MacPro SMBIOS? 3,1 as an example. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/319701-a-_different_-web-drivers-black-screen-on-boot-issue/#findComment-2352620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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