Trying to install new GPU

[vis0r]

Hello all,

I have decided to treat myself and finally buy a GPU for my PC. Never been a big gamer and integrated video card was enough to satisfy my needs, but time has come... After careful consideration I have bought myself geforce gtx 1050 ti. Now, after installing it the PC goes into continuous reboot, not even loading past bios. At certain loads i was getting a tripple beep as well (instead of just one on loading), but still black screen and back to reboot.

Here is what I am playing with:

~5 year old rig

Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Motherboard
Intel i3 3225
Corsair CX430 Watt 80 PLUS Bronze Power supply unit

Rest I believe is irrelevant for the matter..

Obviously, as mentioned above, GPU is GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GD

A bit of googling of continuous loop of restarting indicates incompability of motherboard and GPU ... but pretty certain this is not my case. Another potential issue is PSU .. used some power calculators and they indicated that this should be sufficient in my case.

help?

 

[vis0r]

Oh, probably worth adding that taking GPU out and PC starts without any issues as always... so it's got to be compatibility/PSU issue?!?!

 

[vis0r]

Okaaay.. Googling showed that I do have outdated version of bios and best way to update it apparently using @BIOS app from gigabyte website.

Outcome of what seemed to be fairly successful update is Windows cannot load and suggesting me to go through startup repair. It could not successfully repair though.. Kicking me either out or 'send info to Microsoft' (that's gonna help!) and giving me program signature.

I do see a new bios screen upon loading, then 1-2 second of windows loading and then BSOD for a split second and into restart.

Seems like Windows reinstall is what I need to do now... Will play with it tomorrow a bit and, if unsuccessfull, will reinstall windows I guess..

Thanks all! Seems like right direction, although I enjoyed 6 year old Windows that was working like a charm...
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Update: more googling and changing booting method from IDE to AHCI helped to load the system... yay! Bios version is also F22, which seems to be the latest one.

Now, if I put GPU in then we are not in a cycle of reboots, but just black screen without any movements.. nothing is loading, nothing is happening. Just a quiet fan noise.... lol. Taking GPU out works fine - i am now editing this reply from Windows which loaded just fine.

Thanks for all the help and any further ideas are welcome. Bed time now though, will be picking this up tomorrow.

 

[vis0r]

Daft question but you are plugging the monitor cable into the GPU, aren't you?

If it is plugged into the motherboard, surely the GPU will disable onboard graphics and you will get a black screen.

Yeah, i have done that mistake before when i build PC for my nephew Actually I had signal from both onboard graphic card and separate GPU when i was swapping HDMI between (with different quality obviously). Currently i'm not even hearing the usual loading noise from PC, not even signal to monitor at very initial loading stage (monitor light blinking as if PC is off).


At work currently, so will try the disabling in bios later on today...

Got GPU from amazon, bought it new and obviously can return/exchange it .. If i dont get much luck tonight, then will test GPU tomorrow at different PC somewhere to see if it's loading.

Thanks for all the ideas and help!

 

[vis0r]

Okay everyone, i got it running!

While still at work I read the above couple comments around power to GPU ... was confident that i don't have one, as I did check .. however... inspected the card one more time and found power sockets in one of the corners. was very smartly done in the corner that I have missed it last time.

I also went into bios and completely disabled integrated video card. After restart I had to manually press restart button on PC for some reason and it did not start straight away... not sure what's the reason ... but after 1-2 manual restarts it started.

So not so confident what exactly worked to get it running, since it was automatic use of integrated card... so in my head PC should have loaded even with GPU not plugged to supply? Clearly not the case.

Oh well, thank you very much everyone (specially the 'daft' questions, as they definitely helped ). drivers installed, couple restarts, dont see any issues. want to stress test it to see what's what as well, but seems working fine.

As for the comment about board, had no issues in 5 years of use and it seems that everything worked fine in this case as well. User was the problem