I have an Older Gateway with a Phoenixlabs MB installed where the BIOS is from 2008 and for Vista. I ran CPU Z to gather all my info on the rig.
The MB model is G33M05G1 and the BIOS is listed as from Phoenixlabs 841P041G. My issue is I have an Nvidea GTS 250 that I want to run. The PS unit I have will work with it. I just bought the Corsair CX650M. I install the card in the PCI slot, connect all cables and the unit won't even start. If I remove the card and plug into the on board display input it fires up just fine. I looked at the BIOS using F2 and I don't see any PCI option which is weird because there is a PCI slot on the board. I thought that perhaps since the BIOS is so old I may need to update it but I cannot find it anywhere. The machine came originally with Vista and I installed 7 Ultimate. This card ran fine with the rig before. I had it stored away and decided to bring it back. The rig runs like a champ with 8GB of RAM and the processor is Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300. I'm dying to play games again and have used this rig for them for years. I have no idea why it won't start with the card installed. I also cannot find updated BIOS for it. Am I looking in the wrong direction thinking the BIOS needs to be updated? I'm almost positive the card works fine as well. I Please help!
The MB model is G33M05G1 and the BIOS is listed as from Phoenixlabs 841P041G. My issue is I have an Nvidea GTS 250 that I want to run. The PS unit I have will work with it. I just bought the Corsair CX650M. I install the card in the PCI slot, connect all cables and the unit won't even start. If I remove the card and plug into the on board display input it fires up just fine. I looked at the BIOS using F2 and I don't see any PCI option which is weird because there is a PCI slot on the board. I thought that perhaps since the BIOS is so old I may need to update it but I cannot find it anywhere. The machine came originally with Vista and I installed 7 Ultimate. This card ran fine with the rig before. I had it stored away and decided to bring it back. The rig runs like a champ with 8GB of RAM and the processor is Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300. I'm dying to play games again and have used this rig for them for years. I have no idea why it won't start with the card installed. I also cannot find updated BIOS for it. Am I looking in the wrong direction thinking the BIOS needs to be updated? I'm almost positive the card works fine as well. I Please help!