Puzzled.

trackrat · 9 Oct 2011 at 15:21

I have put together a cheap, (mainly second hand parts) computer for a less well off friend.
It consists of a Foxcon motherboard, E4300 processor and 2 X 2GB Corsair memory, a Seagate 160GB SATA drive.
New parts include a OCUK 550W PSU, and a DVDRW.
In a Silverstone SG02 case.
The computer works fine if I use the onboard graphics, but if I try to use a graphics card in the PCIe 16 slot I get a contiuous beep.
I have two spare graphics cards, a Nvidia 8600 and an ATI 2400, both produce the continuous beep.
I have been into the BIOS and the graphics are set to auto, and there is no option to disable the onboard and set the PCIe as default.

Can anyone give me any suggestion on how to get one of the graphics cards working, or am I stuck with the onboard graphics.

Reaper 392 · 9 Oct 2011 at 17:02

since its a cheapo PSU my first thought is that its not delivering enough power to the graphics card. i would really suggest getting a better PSU like the corsair builder series 430W

Lemin · 9 Oct 2011 at 17:24

If it works with on board, then go into device manager & disable it. then turn off pc & put card in.

trackrat · 9 Oct 2011 at 17:42

Reaper 392 I thought the OCUK value PSU, even though it stated 550W, would deliver 300W, which should have been plenty to power these parts, but i will try a decent make and see what happens.
Lemin, I forgot to mention that it has a Linux distro on it.