Motherboard logo splash does not appear in startup, but boots fine into Windows

I just now changed my GPU from another model of the Asus 3060 ti to the TUF 3060 ti. After plugging in the new GPU, the boot screen does not show the motherboard logo (AORUS). When I press F8/F12 to access bios though, it does let me do that, so that's good. But after the brief black screen, I directly go into Windows Login screen. I can login, game, work, all fine. I am just bothered by the MoBo logo not showing. I checked the BIOS, fast start is disabled. It is a Aorus Z490 elite MoBo. INTEL I9 processor, ASUS TUF 3060 ti GPU , Corsair RM850x PSU.
Any thoughts ? Thank you.

jptnpjpt said:

I just now changed my GPU from another model of the Asus 3060 ti to the TUF 3060 ti. After plugging in the new GPU, the boot screen does not show the motherboard logo (AORUS). When I press F8/F12 to access bios though, it does let me do that, so that's good. But after the brief black screen, I directly go into Windows Login screen. I can login, game, work, all fine. I am just bothered by the MoBo logo not showing. I checked the BIOS, fast start is disabled. It is a Aorus Z490 elite MoBo. INTEL I9 processor, ASUS TUF 3060 ti GPU , Corsair RM850x PSU.
Any thoughts ? Thank you.

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Welcome to ElevenForum.
Go into the BIOS, to the BOOT tab... and find the Gigabyte Logo setting, and set it to enabled.






Motherboard PDF manual...

Ghot said:

Welcome to ElevenForum.
Go into the BIOS, to the BOOT tab... and find the Gigabyte Logo setting, and set it to enabled.


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Motherboard PDF manual...

Z490 AORUS ELITE (rev. 1.0) Support | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ...

www.gigabyte.com

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Hi,
i apologize, I should have given more details. I did check the BIOS for details - Logo Setting is set to enabled, Fast boot is also disabled - and I noticed that for some reason, Initial Display Output was set to PCIE - 2 , I set that back to PCIE 1 , but no success there either. I disabled fast boot in Control Panel also.

I found an app called "NVIDIA GPU UEFI Firmware Update Tool" , used that to see if that would fix it, but no success there either. It boots up, I get black screen, and straight to windows login. Again, I can press f12/f8 during that black screen phase for BIOS though. It just bothers me that this could lead to bigger issues.

jptnpjpt said:

Hi,
i apologize, I should have given more details. I did check the BIOS for details - Logo Setting is set to enabled, Fast boot is also disabled - and I noticed that for some reason, Initial Display Output was set to PCIE - 2 , I set that back to PCIE 1 , but no success there either. I disabled fast boot in Control Panel also.

I found an app called "NVIDIA GPU UEFI Firmware Update Tool" , used that to see if that would fix it, but no success there either. It boots up, I get black screen, and straight to windows login. Again, I can press f12/f8 during that black screen phase for BIOS though. It just bothers me that this could lead to bigger issues.

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The issue may be similar to this... (read the "post" I linked, not the title)

Ghot said:

The issue may be similar to this... (read the "post" I linked, not the title)

Unable to enter BIOS setup screens on ASRock B550 MB

I have an ASRock Steel Legend AMD B550 MB that I have been using since last July. I have 5 OSs installed in this PC, each on a different M.2 drive, so I use the BIOS settings screen to bring up the boot order to select a drive. This has worked fine since last July and continued to work OK...

www.elevenforum.com

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I do have 2 monitors setup - I tried with each monitor one at a time - neither displays the boot logo on their own either. They are connected to 2 different HDMI ports on the graphics card, i disconnected each and tried individually to no success

jptnpjpt said:

I do have 2 monitors setup - I tried with each monitor one at a time - neither displays the boot logo on their own either. They are connected to 2 different HDMI ports on the graphics card, i disconnected each and tried individually to no success

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The way EVGA explained it to me, way that different ports on the vid card have different "priorities".
Try with one monitor and try ALL the ports on the vid card. See if one of them won't show the splash screen and the Windows loading screen as well.

On my vid card, out of all four ports... ONLY the port marked with the green dot, showed "both" the splash screen and the Windows loading screen, on the "same" monitor.
You need to find out which port that is, on your card. Then hook the primary monitor to that port.

This is just a possible cause. But it seems like you have already done all the BIOS things needed.

Ghot said:

The way EVGA explained it to me, way that different ports on the vid card have different "priorities".
Try with one monitor and try ALL the ports on the vid card. See if one of them won't show the splash screen and the Windows loading screen as well.

On my vid card, out of all four ports... ONLY the port marked with the green dot, showed "both" the splash screen and the Windows loading screen.

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The two ports remaining are both DisplayPort, for which I do not have cables at the moment. But I can get them and check again. But also, my card is an ASUS TUF 3060 TI . I do not see a green indicator on any of the ports though, but I could try the Display Ports. It still bugs me

jptnpjpt said:

The two ports remaining are both DisplayPort, for which I do not have cables at the moment. But I can get them and check again. But also, my card is an ASUS TUF 3060 TI . I do not see a green indicator on any of the ports though, but I could try the Display Ports. It still bugs me

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I just used a green dot in the picture to indicate which port.
There's no green dot on the card itself.

It bugged me too, when I found out it happened on my EVGA card. Supposedly, it's something in the vid card's BIOS.




On a side note... when you get the splash screen to show again... Disabling the Gigabyte logo, should show something like this.
Mine is an ASUS board, but I believe most motherboards do this...




I like this splash screen. It shows me if the BIOS is "seeing" my hardware.

Ghot said:

I just used a green dot in the picture to indicate which port.
There's no green dot on the card itself.

It bugged me too, when I found out it happened on my EVGA card. Supposedly, it's something in the vid card's BIOS.




On a side note... when you get the splash screen to show again... Disabling the Gigabyte logo, should show something like this.
Mine is an ASUS board, but I believe most motherboards do this...

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I like this splash screen. It shows me whether the BIOS is "seeing" my hardware.

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Ghot said:

I just used a green dot in the picture to indicate which port.
There's no green dot on the card itself.

It bugged me too, when I found out it happened on my EVGA card. Supposedly, it's something in the vid card's BIOS.




On a side note... when you get the splash screen to show again... Disabling the Gigabyte logo, should show something like this.
Mine is an ASUS board, but I believe most motherboards do this...

View attachment 52789


I like this splash screen. It shows me whether the BIOS is "seeing" my hardware.

Click to expand...

Ghot said:

I just used a green dot in the picture to indicate which port.
There's no green dot on the card itself.

It bugged me too, when I found out it happened on my EVGA card. Supposedly, it's something in the vid card's BIOS.




On a side note... when you get the splash screen to show again... Disabling the Gigabyte logo, should show something like this.
Mine is an ASUS board, but I believe most motherboards do this...

View attachment 52789


I like this splash screen. It shows me if the BIOS is "seeing" my hardware.

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Ah understood. Do you know by any chance if the HDMI ports in the ASUS TUF 3060 TI would not show the splash screen ? And if only the DisplayPorts would ? Is that a thing just like in your EVGA ? I do not have a Displayport handy to check. I was not able to find anything on Google either for the ASUS cards. If you know, please let me know :) .

jptnpjpt said:

Ah understood. Do you know by any chance if the HDMI ports in the ASUS TUF 3060 TI would not show the splash screen ? And if only the DisplayPorts would ? Is that a thing just like in your EVGA ? I do not have a Displayport handy to check. I was not able to find anything on Google either for the ASUS cards. If you know, please let me know :) .

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All I know for sure is that the one HDMI port on my vid card, showed the splash screen, but not the Windows loading screen.
I realize you have ASUS vid cards. I'm just pointing out how different ports on the card can show different things, depending on how they coded the vid card BIOS.

In the motherboard BIOS you already disabled Fast Boot, and enasbled the Boot Logo.... so the splash screen should show.
The only other thing I can think of is which port on the vid card you are using.

If there could be something else causing it... I don't know what it might be.

All you did was switch vid cards (same company), and lost the splash screen. I have to think it's the vid card port you are using.





On MY vid card, all the ports work, but only one of the four, shows both the splash screen and the Windows loading screen on the same primary monitor.

jptnpjpt said:

I just now changed my GPU from another model of the Asus 3060 ti to the TUF 3060 ti.

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I saw that happen couple years ago when plugging in a video card in the PCIe X16 slot and attaching the monitor to it. Appeared that bypassing the onboard video adapter had an effect on the maker's display of their logo.

Ghot said:

On a side note... when you get the splash screen to show again... Disabling the Gigabyte logo, should show something like this.
Mine is an ASUS board, but I believe most motherboards do this...

View attachment 52789


I like this splash screen. It shows me if the BIOS is "seeing" my hardware.

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When building computers back in mid-'90s we were getting faster computers that outpaced the speed of the HDDs, would set the BIOS to display that screen to delay calling the OS and allow the HDD to get fully spun up to load the OS.

Berton said:

When building computers back in mid-'90s we were getting faster computers that outpaced the speed of the HDDs, would set the BIOS to display that screen to delay calling the OS and allow the HDD to get fully spun up to load the OS.

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In my case, I like that screen. One time it showed a RAM failure about to happen.
I had 16GB of RAM (16384), and it showed that number had dropped slightly, by like 150.
Sure enough... the RAM failed about a week later.

The ASUS logo doesn't do anything for me, so I always disable that.

Ghot said:

In my case, I like that screen. One time it showed a RAM failure about to happen.
I had 16GB of RAM (16384), and it showed that number had dropped slightly, by like 150.
Sure enough... the RAM failed about a week later.

The ASUS logo doesn't do anything for me, so I always disable that.

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I have a HDMI to Display Port adapter, that I tried on 3 of the DP ports for the graphics card - the 4th port shows nothing on the monitor at all - no OS no BIOS nothing - but when i pull it out and plug into another DP port on the card, the display is back. FYI the Logo issue during boot is still not fixed, just another thing I noticed. I dont know why that one DP port does not work.

jptnpjpt said:

I have a HDMI to Display Port adapter, that I tried on 3 of the DP ports for the graphics card - the 4th port shows nothing on the monitor at all - no OS no BIOS nothing - but when i pull it out and plug into another DP port on the card, the display is back. FYI the Logo issue during boot is still not fixed, just another thing I noticed. I dont know why that one DP port does not work.

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I'm not sure you can use an adapter, you may need a true display port cable (if your monitor can accept display port).
When I was troubleshooting MY problem... I had spare HDMI cables, so I tried to "trick" the card with an adapter.

The card wasn't fooled. I had to use a DP to DP cable.
I still have that adapter, in it's bag from the day I bought it in May 2020.



If this wasn't such a horrible pic, you'd be able to tell that this is brand new.

@jptnpjpt


Well this or something related could be the cause as well... starting at post #12

Ghot said:

@jptnpjpt


Well this or something related could be the cause as well... starting at post #12

Weird Boot problem. No more BIOS splash screen. - Windows 10 Help Forums

1. The Specs in "My Computer" are up-to-date. 2. Link to my BIOS manual: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...d9ED3vTB2NaOBF 3. Once on the desktop, the computer runs fine. Benchmarks, stress tests, everything runs fine. Problem started ap

www.tenforums.com

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Turns out i do not have a monitor currently that has DP, i bought a new one this morning but have to return it as it does not have DP, only hdmi and vga . I will get one with DP to DP support and try at the earliest and get back here. Will update soon as possible.

jptnpjpt said:

Turns out i do not have a monitor currently that has DP, i bought a new one this morning but have to return it as it does not have DP, only hdmi and vga . I will get one with DP to DP support and try at the earliest and get back here. Will update soon as possible.

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Hello, So I tried with a DP to DP, the port worked, - but ALAS, no motherboard splash screen. However, i did discover something new: during boot , the keyboard and mouse briefly seem to lose power and not light up, for like 3 seconds, and come back up, and then on the screen the Windows login screen comes up. I checked Event Viewer, this error/s happens EVERYTIME i boot my PC :
local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

ACPI
2

ACPI thermal zone \_TZ.TZ20 has been enumerated.
_PSV = 290K
_TC1 = 0
_TC2 = 0


This error was not present before swapping the GPU. Could this mean I messed up somewhere with the power cables and it is causing the PC to boot down during the phase of motherboard splash screen, and come back up again on its own ? I am lost now since I even tried DP to DP and is not working.

Have you tried briefly removing your graphics card and seeing if the splash screen returns with onboard graphics and then re-installing the card? Just a thought. I've fixed a few bugs doing silly stuff like this.