Walked downstairs one day to see that my computer wouldn't start. Diagnosed that to a bad power port. Got a new motherboard because after desoldering (or that's what I attempted to do) I realised it it was small to (re)solder in and I couldn't find the right part to reorder.
Sooooo I got a new motherboard. Direct part number replacement. Barefoot on my wood floor and ESD wrsitband on, I put that bad boy in. Double and triple check things and connections. Go to hit the power button and I get 6 beeps and 6 correspopnding flashes of the powerbutton. The system does seem to be on, fan is running with other startup noises and running sounds but I have a blank screen and orange power button. If I hit CTL+ALT+DELETE it will restart and do the whole process again. The 6 beeps by HP standards denotes graphics card missing/error. My original motherboard had integrated graphics so I thought the new same part number motherboard would too. Obviously not. Sooooo I got a Geforce 2GB MXM graphics card update with heat sink. Barefeet, wood floor, ESD wriststrap, thermal paste and turn it on to hear.....SIX BEEPS AND BLANK SCREEN.
After googling around everywhere some people say I need to get into the BIOS and change to legacy boot mode and out of the UEFI mode that is killing me right now. Which I agree with and would totally do if I could see my BIOS screen or anything for that matter. I also can't go back to my other board because it will not power up. So my question; How do I get to or change BIOS settings so that my computer will recognize a graphics card or the internal graphics that should be on the new motherboard itself so that it will boot?
I need this computer for CAD work soon so I have contemplated using the i7 Processor, 8GBs RAM, Geforce Card and touchscreen to do a PC build. So if anybody has some awesome insight they would like to spatter up on this post I would appreciate it. Thank you!
Sooooo I got a new motherboard. Direct part number replacement. Barefoot on my wood floor and ESD wrsitband on, I put that bad boy in. Double and triple check things and connections. Go to hit the power button and I get 6 beeps and 6 correspopnding flashes of the powerbutton. The system does seem to be on, fan is running with other startup noises and running sounds but I have a blank screen and orange power button. If I hit CTL+ALT+DELETE it will restart and do the whole process again. The 6 beeps by HP standards denotes graphics card missing/error. My original motherboard had integrated graphics so I thought the new same part number motherboard would too. Obviously not. Sooooo I got a Geforce 2GB MXM graphics card update with heat sink. Barefeet, wood floor, ESD wriststrap, thermal paste and turn it on to hear.....SIX BEEPS AND BLANK SCREEN.
After googling around everywhere some people say I need to get into the BIOS and change to legacy boot mode and out of the UEFI mode that is killing me right now. Which I agree with and would totally do if I could see my BIOS screen or anything for that matter. I also can't go back to my other board because it will not power up. So my question; How do I get to or change BIOS settings so that my computer will recognize a graphics card or the internal graphics that should be on the new motherboard itself so that it will boot?
I need this computer for CAD work soon so I have contemplated using the i7 Processor, 8GBs RAM, Geforce Card and touchscreen to do a PC build. So if anybody has some awesome insight they would like to spatter up on this post I would appreciate it. Thank you!
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