PC issues with graphics card change...

Raimiette

Hopefully someone can help me on a bit of a problem I am having. I wanted to upgrade my graphics card (was a NVIDIA 8500) so I purchased a NVIDIA 200 GTS to replace it. I needed to buy a new power supply to support the new card (needed an output of 500W, old one was 350W).

I bought the new power supply and installed it. That went okay, the supply worked fine with my old video card and everything seemed to be in order. I received my new card (the 200 GTS) yesterday and stuck it in the slot my old card was in and now I have major issues.

My PC will not boot up and when turned on a beeping error plays. The error seems to be one short beep followed by one long beep, pause, short beep, long beep, pause and so on.

I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong so I took the new card out and put the old one back in but it still does the same error. It seems like it doesn’t recognize either card at all.

I am hoping I didn’t ***** up my pc beyond all hope.

My PC is a HP m9150f. I unfortunately can’t give you complete specs because I can’t boot the computer up but here’s what little I do remember;

Windows Vista Premium

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz, 2400 Mhz, 4 core(s), 4 logical processors

RAM: 3GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (old now)

Sorry, I know that’s not much.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks so much!

mohdzubair89

remove your cmos battery and start ur pc after that shutdown ur pc by removing power plug and put back ur cmos battery and start with ur old card

Albin

Try this,
Check all cables in motherboad has been fixed correctly.
Disconnect all drives like HDD,Floppy,DVD..
Remove new hardware,
Remove any disks or USB devices.

Then try to restart, if you still face problem, then
Remove the Ram,
Now you should get some different beep code, if you didnot get differen beep code, then the problem is with the ram.

If you have more than one stick of memory remove all but one stick of memory, try rotating through each stick.
Try with one stick of memory.

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Albin

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horheg

Try booting your PC with no video card at all and see if it makes the same beeping sequence.
If it does you could have bended some pins when you inserted the new card. If you did that by accident you will see the pins if you look very close and carefully at the slot (use a flashlight for better view).
Also check that your RAM modules are good inserted.
If you don't see any bended pins your video card slot may be burned out.
Good luck.

bloodwynd

The fact that your system worked after you installed the new power supply means that you were able to do it correctly.

Now, with the video card, you might not have inserted it firmly and correctly into the slot. Try horheg's suggestion. But basing from my own experience, it all points to a poorly inserted video card.