HELP WITH MY SETUP!

Ok just done some digging and from what I can tell the problem is the bios is legacy and not UEFI so no nvidia card later than a GTX 600 series will work and there is no bios available to fix this.

Your options are to either get a gtx 600 series Gpu or swap out the motherboard in which you will probably need to change the case and psu aswell since it is probably a custom HP design so with the 2nd option your probably best just replacing the lot but obviously this depends on your budget.
 
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Joxeon said:
Ok just done some digging and from what I can tell the problem is the bios is legacy and not UEFI so no nvidia card later than a GTX 600 series will work and there is no bios available to fix this.

Your options are to either get a gtx 600 series Gpu or swap out the motherboard in which you will probably need to change the case and psu aswell since it is probably a custom HP design so with the 2nd option your probably best just replacing the lot but obviously this depends on your budget.
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yeah, I have a practically got a 0 budget the PSU (750W) is a new one already and I have the card so really a case and motherboard would be better to change no?
a cheap case with good airflow and a new motherboard?
 
Steve1994 said:
and would this cover the problem Joxeon has mentioned?
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If you mean about the UEFI BIOS, then no it won't. It is hardware dependant as far as I recall.

However I would have to argue about the use of UEFI BIOS: my XFX R7850 (aged newer than the release of GTX600 series) worked fine in my non UEFI motherboard. Hence this, which I said earlier:

geekyadz said:
PCIe 3.0 cards can work in PCIe 2.0 slots, certainly on the AMD motherboards anyway (my example: GA-790XTA-UD4 motherboard and XFX Radeon HD 7850 Ghost)

The only thing that's different here is that this is a HP branded board on an Intel socket: I know that the likes of HP do weird things but I didn't think it was a CPU limitation?
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As I said: PC manufacturers (as in the likes of HP, Dell etc) all do weird and wonderful things so something you would expect to work ends up not working.

Steve1994 said:
yeah, I have a practically got a 0 budget the PSU (750W) is a new one already and I have the card so really a case and motherboard would be better to change no?
a cheap case with good airflow and a new motherboard?
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Depending on the case, why not throw that HP/MSI board away and reuse it with something more modern inside? Saves trying to sort this out
 
Joxeon said:
Ok just done some digging and from what I can tell the problem is the bios is legacy and not UEFI so no nvidia card later than a GTX 600 series will work and there is no bios available to fix this.

Your options are to either get a gtx 600 series Gpu or swap out the motherboard in which you will probably need to change the case and psu aswell since it is probably a custom HP design so with the 2nd option your probably best just replacing the lot but obviously this depends on your budget.
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are sure about that.. i can switch my bios to legacy and my 1080ti still works fine
 
geekyadz said:
If you mean about the UEFI BIOS, then no it won't. It is hardware dependant as far as I recall.

However I would have to argue about the use of UEFI BIOS: my XFX R7850 (aged newer than the release of GTX600 series) worked fine in my non UEFI motherboard. Hence this, which I said earlier:



As I said: PC manufacturers (as in the likes of HP, Dell etc) all do weird and wonderful things so something you would expect to work ends up not working.


Depending on the case, why not throw that HP/MSI board away and reuse it with something more modern inside? Saves trying to sort this out
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so your saying just get a new board? and badabing badabong?

**edit** ill try updating the bios on this old board and see what the crac is if not a new board is needed correct?

**EDIT** do I have to make sure the new board has the legacy bios or uefi bios?
 
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Steve1994 said:
so your saying just get a new board? and badabing badabong?
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Loosely yes. Actually, you will:

CPU (for the new board)
Memory (for the new board)
Maybe (and MAYBE) PSU

Steve1994 said:
**edit** ill try updating the bios on this old board and see what the crac is if not a new board is needed correct?
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Might be wortyh a try. Just make sure it is for your system (I cannot see your system, and am having to rely on what you have told us, so therefore I cannot take any responiblity for any misinformation/issues from you proceeding to install the BIOS I have found)
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**EDIT** do I have to make sure the new board has the legacy bios or uefi bios?
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I suggest you reread mine and @Chaos666 's posts.
 
geekyadz said:
Loosely yes. Actually, you will:

CPU (for the new board)
Memory (for the new board)
Maybe (and MAYBE) PSU


Might be wortyh a try. Just make sure it is for your system (I cannot see your system, and am having to rely on what you have told us, so therefore I cannot take any responiblity for any misinformation/issues from you proceeding to install the BIOS I have found)

I suggest you reread mine and @Chaos666 's posts.
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well there is a MSI board I see on beay, that's a 1155 socket and the memory is ddr3 which I already have, 16gb of it? so the ram and cpu could be reused in this instantance?

**EDIT** I also already upgraded the PSU to a 750w watt so along as the plugs fit no problems right?
 
Steve1994 said:
well there is a MSI board I see on beay, that's a 1155 socket and the memory is ddr3 which I already have, 16gb of it? so the ram and cpu could be reused in this instantance?

**EDIT** I also already upgraded the PSU to a 750w watt so along as the plugs fit no problems right?
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I suggest you google the board and check the QVL memory list (and CPU list as it will also have the BIOS version if your processor is supported in it).

Also double check with the seller that it actually works, maybe get them to update the BIOS?
 
Chaos666 said:
are sure about that.. i can switch my bios to legacy and my 1080ti still works fine
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I've had a 1070ti working on a Asus 1156 and 1366 motherboards which are a generation older and have legacy bios but I'm guessing in this instance it's more down to how HP implements the bios as their customers generally do not update bios and swap in and out different hardware etc.
 
i had an old dell with i5 2400 and it was working fine with gtx 1060 3gb.. so idk... but i do not think it could cause an issue
 
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