Can a prebuilt hp computer motherboard support all GPU's?

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seanomono

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Basically I am going to upgrade to a Evga gtx 770 4gb card but I am putting it into my hp motherboard and wondering if I will have issues with a driver on the mobo. I have enough psu since all i am doing is upgrading from a 560 that I installed.
 
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There is always a graphics driver. What is the make and model of his PC. make sure the bios is set to boot from pci-e first. Also try testing the rig with his new PSU and your GTX 560. Another thing, is your friend using a 64bit OS?
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My case and psu will handle it but just not sure if a motherboards drivers can be not compatible with a gtx 770 and there is no way for me to update my bios for motherboard that i know of. my mistake for buying a prebuilt hp.

 
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Motherboards don't need drivers for video cards. Video cards need drivers for Windows, that's all. PCI-Express is a standard that ensures compatibility between a motherboard's BIOS and any video card.
 
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Well with that said my friend today put in a 770 and new 750wat psu into his case but all it did was go to the load screen when booting and wouldnt go any further than that. any ideas then?


 
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Did your friend try booting into safe mode? did he remove the old drivers? Did he double check all the power connectors? (It can be easy to mistake the 8 pin PCI-e power for a 8pin CPU) The fact that it got to the load screen means it posted and the BIOS did it's job. The problem is likely not the motherboard if that's what your thinking. (unless it's physically damaged in some way.)
 
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seanomono

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see we took the graphics card out and hooked display back to mobo and it booted just fine. he never had an existing gpu so there was nothing to delete for drivers. could it be the GPU is bad?
 
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There is always a graphics driver. What is the make and model of his PC. make sure the bios is set to boot from pci-e first. Also try testing the rig with his new PSU and your GTX 560. Another thing, is your friend using a 64bit OS?
 
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yes is a 64bit os. make is a HP Pavilion p7-1298c. Yeah I have him bringing his rig over today to mess with it and I will try my 560 in it and his 770 in mine.
 
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