Sorry for the long title.
So I recently installed a gt640 ev3a into a very old optiplex 330 (2007). I also installed 4gb of ram (2x2gb) instead of its wopping preinstalled amount of 1 hole gig. The computer first booted up just fine, detected both sticks, and actually asked me to hook the graphics card to the monitor because I still had a vga cable hooked up. I shut it back down and put the dvi cable on. So it passed POST, and I as able to log on. I was running off of the graphics card now. Then I went into the device manager, and saw that it was registered a basic vga adapter or something like that. Obviously I didnt install the driver yet. So after about 2 hours of searching I finally found the right driver and it was downloaded from nvidias' site. After it installed successfully it had to restart.
After i waited for the restart and it went past the bios screen, it started to load windows and after about 2-3 minutes, it flicked off to a black screen (normally it fades to a windows logo). After I waiting for a bit longer, 4 quick beeps were emitted. I waited a little more longer, no more beeps were heard and i turned it off.
I went into bios and made sure all 4gb of ram is detected, made sure the pce was enabled, and then restarted. same thing. I ran the board self check and ram and pci-e checked out and the graphics card passed.
I assuming it might be a bios issue judging that my version is A03 and the most recent (relatively speaking) is A11 which was released in 2014. So it may be a bios version issue.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Mother board is:
Dell 0kp561
So I recently installed a gt640 ev3a into a very old optiplex 330 (2007). I also installed 4gb of ram (2x2gb) instead of its wopping preinstalled amount of 1 hole gig. The computer first booted up just fine, detected both sticks, and actually asked me to hook the graphics card to the monitor because I still had a vga cable hooked up. I shut it back down and put the dvi cable on. So it passed POST, and I as able to log on. I was running off of the graphics card now. Then I went into the device manager, and saw that it was registered a basic vga adapter or something like that. Obviously I didnt install the driver yet. So after about 2 hours of searching I finally found the right driver and it was downloaded from nvidias' site. After it installed successfully it had to restart.
After i waited for the restart and it went past the bios screen, it started to load windows and after about 2-3 minutes, it flicked off to a black screen (normally it fades to a windows logo). After I waiting for a bit longer, 4 quick beeps were emitted. I waited a little more longer, no more beeps were heard and i turned it off.
I went into bios and made sure all 4gb of ram is detected, made sure the pce was enabled, and then restarted. same thing. I ran the board self check and ram and pci-e checked out and the graphics card passed.
I assuming it might be a bios issue judging that my version is A03 and the most recent (relatively speaking) is A11 which was released in 2014. So it may be a bios version issue.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Mother board is:
Dell 0kp561
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