Beep Code and BSOD after installing new graphics card

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Hi everyone I have some assistance that I would like to ask of you. I recently bought a new graphics card into a computer that old graphics card overheated and went dead. It had been about 6 months since I had even turned on the computer and after purchasing the new card, I cleaned it out with a can of air and installed it myself. The first thing that happened was it BSOD due to driver conflict after 2-10 minutes after logging into windows, because of the fact that IGPU multi monitor was enabled in the bios. I disabled it and it was fine in that regard. I left it on for a day or two straight after that, but when I did attempt to turn it off, the monitor would go off but not the system itself. I had to push the button to shut it down. I tried turning it on this morning after several hours of rest and it gave me another bsod while trying to boot claiming "inaccessible boot device". I tried going into safe mode and it just gave me the same error. Another thing is that sometimes it will beep code once indicating a memory refresh failure on my particular motherboard(it did this only one time during the many restarts when I was trying to figure out the graphics card BSOD).

Any thoughts or suggestions? I have a ton of school work all this week to take care of(I'm using a laptop right now), so I don't really have too much time to try to figure it out myself over the next few days. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. I have Windows 10 and it has only been on there since right around the time my last graphics card went bad. I still have the files to go back to Windows 7.
 
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boot into bios if you can and reset the BIOS to defaults and reconfigure. It will force the BIOS to rescan the hardware and rebuild the database of hardware setting that it hands off to windows for its plug and play system.

if you have any bios overclock remove it, I would also remove any software overclock in windows until you get things working correctly.

the above method can fix some GPU bugchecks but you would also want to check the connections from your PSU to your GPU and make sure your GPU is not overheating (make sure the fan is spinning) This problem can also be caused by audio conflicts in the system (often resolved by resetting the BIOS)
 
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I booted the computer and checked the fans, and the gpu fan will start spinning when I power on, but then stops right before the BSOD at the windows logo.
 
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I would boot into BIOS and see if the system has problems.
if no problem then I would be looking for a windows overclocking driver for the GPU causing the issue.
sometimes they are updated and are installed into different directories such that you get a overclock driver tweaking voltages right before another overclocking drive tweaks them from another directory.

if you have more than one graphic slot you can try to put the graphic card into a differnet slot.
if you have onboard graphics you could remove the second GPU and see if your system will boot, then remove any old overclock drivers, power down and attempt to install the GPU again.






 
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NeuralNet88

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I was wrong about the beep code. There is no significance there. I also ran a chkdsk on the command prompt in advanced options and it found no problems. I haven't cleared the cmos yet.

The problem is is that I can't even get past the windows logo screen where it spins for half a minute or so and then goes to the BSOD and starts automatic repair upon restart. I can't logon to windows or get onto the desktop at all. My onboard graphics also won't work at all with windows 10, last time I tried 6-7 months ago(probably a driver problem I would imagine)

I tried resetting to defaults and it didn't work. There is another problem I've found. I have to admit I was the one that dusted out the computer, but it was my roommate who installed it. The 6 pin connector is in(there is only one) and I saw them pop it in but I took a look at the graphics card and it doesn't seem to be straight on when you look at it(it's at a slight angle on one end). The slot connector seems to be in the slot fully all the way through though. He also put the cord to the 8 pin power connector that goes near the cpu behind the little indention of the graphics card next to the PCIE slot. It's almost touching the motherboard and in fact I think it's touching one of the capacitors on it. Could that be the problem?

Another thing is that my roommate was the one that turned off the computer during the time that the monitor was turning off but the system wasn't powering down. He said that before he pushed and held the power button that windows said an application was trying to shut down but was taking too long and wouldn't specify which application it was, so he shut the computer off anyway. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it.


 
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just make sure the GPU card is fully seated in the slot, you might remove it and put it into another slot and make sure it is seated. I have seen computers that had graphics cards pop slightly out of a slot when the computer was moved. What works just depends on what pins are actually still connected.




 
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