Need mobo advice

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I ended up with a pair of R7 265 video cards. Got them for a good deal to run them together. Picked up a Asus M5a97r2.0 mobo but found out the cards are not compatible with a uefi bios. So who can recommend me a mobo for these cards that’s amd chipset specially phantom II. Or does anyone have a card that is compatible that I can borrow and see if changing the bios settings to legacy boot instead?!

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Also installed a cheap Coolmaster CPU cooler with dual fans and brought the Temp down a solid 10C Super happy. Temps haven’t hit 50C even playing games.

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I find it highly unlikely a newer card like the R7 can’t work with a UEFI bios, where did you see/read that?

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^kinda thinking the same thing. Doesn’t work in Legacy? My GTX 285 worked in a UEFI BIOS, my wife has some legacy card that works in a UEFI BIOS.

I’ll only buy ASUS boards.

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Maybe a dead mobo then? If someone get get my current setup running with this motherboard ill throw then some dollars!

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First can you boot with only one video card installed? Try both cards… might be a bad card.
Second do you have a different video card you try?

Also try clearing CMOS
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/HelpDesk_Manual/

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No i don’t have a different card. Seems like it wants to boot. All the fans turn on and get the 1 start up boot. But no video or mouse or keyboard. The card is being used currently on a smaller micro board without problem. But the current motherboard was a bandaid till i got a larger board to handle more memory and a 2nd video card. Had built this tower to play The Division when its finally released.

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Try clearing the cmos, if that doesn’t work chances are you have a dead board.

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Tried that. With both a jumper and taking out the battery for 10+ min.

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I guess ill just bite the bullet and pick up a new asus m5a97 board. Seems like the best option.