A while ago I bought a used dell t5400 and put a gtx 760 in it for cheap gaming. It worked fairly well, and after the initial problems of the setup, I didn't have any others. Until now. I picked up a free computer with a radeon hd 7770 and thought that I would change up my system by putting my graphics card in there, but the gtx 760 needed an 8 pin and 6 pin for power, and the power supply in the free computer only had a 6 pin.
So I just booted the free computer up with the hd 7770 installed, and put in a different hard drive. The hard drive I used was the same one from the dell t5400 that I had, and I didn't erase it or anything, which I think was a mistake. The free computer booted up fine with the 7770 and my hard drive in it, except it couldn't connect to the internet and games wouldn't start. I realize now that I just needed to uninstall the drivers then restart, and windows 7 would have installed the correct ones, but I didn't know that at the time. I planned to just wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows.
I think that would have worked, but I got sidetracked by an idea: "I could use the existing 6 pin in the free computer and a 2 molex to 6 pin adapter. I thought this would act as two 6 pins, which is what I used in the dell for the gtx 760, even though the 760 should have a 6 pin and 8 pin." When I tried to start it up with the 760 in the free computer, it didn't POST.
I tried reverting back to the 7770 that worked in the free computer previously, and now that didn't work either. I tried using both the 7770 and gtx 760 in the dell, and neither worked. The only graphics card I got to work in the dell was an Nvidia quadro fx 1700, which only gets power from the motherboard. The quadro card doesn't work in the free computer though.
Specs of the free computer:
Asrock H61M-GE motherboard
16gb ddr3 ram
i3 2120
OCZ ModXStream 600w power supply
radeon hd 7770
Specs of the T5400:
two xeon e5430 cpus
dell 850w power supply
gtx 760 (works with quadro fx 1700)
seagate 500gb harddrive
I have tried:
Every combination of ram on each computer
Clearing cmos on each computer
Replacing motherboard battery on each computer
Tested the cpu of the free computer in a friend's computer of the same socket type
Booting free computer without a graphics card
Using the ram of the free computer in the same friends computer
Using different ram in the free computer
Installing a speaker to the motherboard of the free computer, still didn't get a beep code for that
Things to note:
The free computer doesn't give a beep code, even when I bought a new motherboard speaker for it.
The only way I can get the dell to work is using the fx 1700. With the other 2 cards I get a 2 beep code, which means there is a ram error.
Any ideas to get either computer working with the gtx 760 or the hd 7770?
So I just booted the free computer up with the hd 7770 installed, and put in a different hard drive. The hard drive I used was the same one from the dell t5400 that I had, and I didn't erase it or anything, which I think was a mistake. The free computer booted up fine with the 7770 and my hard drive in it, except it couldn't connect to the internet and games wouldn't start. I realize now that I just needed to uninstall the drivers then restart, and windows 7 would have installed the correct ones, but I didn't know that at the time. I planned to just wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows.
I think that would have worked, but I got sidetracked by an idea: "I could use the existing 6 pin in the free computer and a 2 molex to 6 pin adapter. I thought this would act as two 6 pins, which is what I used in the dell for the gtx 760, even though the 760 should have a 6 pin and 8 pin." When I tried to start it up with the 760 in the free computer, it didn't POST.
I tried reverting back to the 7770 that worked in the free computer previously, and now that didn't work either. I tried using both the 7770 and gtx 760 in the dell, and neither worked. The only graphics card I got to work in the dell was an Nvidia quadro fx 1700, which only gets power from the motherboard. The quadro card doesn't work in the free computer though.
Specs of the free computer:
Asrock H61M-GE motherboard
16gb ddr3 ram
i3 2120
OCZ ModXStream 600w power supply
radeon hd 7770
Specs of the T5400:
two xeon e5430 cpus
dell 850w power supply
gtx 760 (works with quadro fx 1700)
seagate 500gb harddrive
I have tried:
Every combination of ram on each computer
Clearing cmos on each computer
Replacing motherboard battery on each computer
Tested the cpu of the free computer in a friend's computer of the same socket type
Booting free computer without a graphics card
Using the ram of the free computer in the same friends computer
Using different ram in the free computer
Installing a speaker to the motherboard of the free computer, still didn't get a beep code for that
Things to note:
The free computer doesn't give a beep code, even when I bought a new motherboard speaker for it.
The only way I can get the dell to work is using the fx 1700. With the other 2 cards I get a 2 beep code, which means there is a ram error.
Any ideas to get either computer working with the gtx 760 or the hd 7770?
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