Hopefully someone can help me on a bit of a problem I am having. I wanted to upgrade my graphics card (was a NVIDIA 8500) so I purchased a NVIDIA 200 GTS to replace it. I needed to buy a new power supply to support the new card (needed an output of 500W, old one was 350W).
I bought the new power supply and installed it. That went okay, the supply worked fine with my old video card and everything seemed to be in order. I received my new card (the 200 GTS) yesterday and stuck it in the slot my old card was in and now I have major issues.
My PC will not boot up and when turned on a beeping error plays. The error seems to be one short beep followed by one long beep, pause, short beep, long beep, pause and so on.
I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong so I took the new card out and put the old one back in but it still does the same error. It seems like it doesn’t recognize either card at all.
I am hoping I didn’t screw up my pc beyond all hope.
My PC is a HP m9150f. I unfortunately can’t give you complete specs because I can’t boot the computer up but here’s what little I do remember;
A good idea would be to tell us why you wanted to change the power supply and graphic card, this might throw some light.
A short and long bleep sounds like a board problem see Bios bleep codes
We could try try disconnecting all USB devices and try booting, in fact disconnect everything except the monitor, the keyboard and mouse as well see it it boots, a faulty keyboard, mouse or USB devices can play tricks.
Another thing you could try is to remove the power cord... then remove the bios battery for about 3 minutes this will re-set the bios, NOTE: this will result in you having to do a bios set up once the machine boots there is usually a 'quick set button that will set it for your configuration, re-insert the battery and try booting again.
Still no joy then its back to basics, disconnect all the drives including the hard drive so that you just have the mobo, CPU, RAM graphic card and power supply.... try rebooting, still no joy then it's obviously one of these that are faulty.... I'm pretty certain at this stage you'll still have the 'long n' shorts', but lets give it a try as we don't know our luck in a raffle.
One question does arise is the graphic card suitable for the mobo?
According to the HP web site, the one short / one long beep sequence indicates a memory problem. You might have knocked a memory module loose while replacing the video card.
Power down your system before the next step.
Try removing and re-seating your memory module(s) in the same slots currently used. If you have more than one memory module and the problem persists, let us know. If the problem persists after re-seating multiple memory module(s), try removing one at a time to isolate the faulty one.
Ya, I would diagnose memory problem. Try removing and reseating each at first to see if you just knocked one loose during install.
If that doesn't work, remove one piece of RAM each and try to boot. If one is no good, remove it and re-install the other and try again. That will help you narrow down the problem.
Thanks kindly, it was a connection thing, one of my RAM modules was loose.
BUT I have a new issue now, still graphics card related.
I fixed that up and now no more beeps and the PC starts now but my monitor still doesn't recognize any of the graphics cards. Once again I thought it might have only been the new one but neither work. They don’t seem to send out a signal. I've double checked the monitor and the monitor cords and they work fine on other computers so I know its got to be related to my PC somehow.
It sounds like my PC is booting up fine now, and all the fans (including the graphics card fan) seem to be working fine but there's just no signal. I don’t see any other wires or anything that should be connected to the cards so I'm just confused now.
I’ve removed and replaced both cards several times now so I'm pretty sure (unless Im doing something really wrong) it's not a connection issue.
Any suggestions now?
EDIT: Also, someone had asked above why I had changed graphics cards and the power supply. I wanted to change graphics cards just to upgrade. The 8500 was getting pretty old and wanted something that would hold up better to current games. The new card required a power supply of 450W or more and my old power supply just wouldn't cut it so that's why I had to upgrade that as well. There were no PC issues until I started changining things.
EDIT 2: I should also mention the NEW card is a NVIDIA 250 GTS and the OLD one is a NVIDIA 8500 GT.
Last edited by Raimiette : 10-23-2009 at 03:18 PM.
Is there a button on the monitor that gives you the ability to select D-Sub, DVI, S-Video, and Composite? Cycle through the selections, and match the selection to the video cable type.
Is there a button on the monitor that gives you the ability to select D-Sub, DVI, S-Video, and Composite? Cycle through the selections, and match the selection to the video cable type.
HTH!
I would love to use the menu but with my monitor (HP w2207) if you enable AutoPivot, which I had done prior to the new graphics card fiasco, the menu won't work onscreen and you have to disable AutoPivot first which I can't do unless I can see what's going on on the screen (I have to disable it using a program in Windows).
It's actually a bit odd though because when I hooked up the monitor to a separate PC I reverted it back to its factory settings. That should have carried over when I hooked it back up to my problem PC but I guess it didn't because I still can't use the onboard monitor menu when hooked up to the problem PC.
I was using a HDMI cord prior to the problems and when the monitor wasn't getting a signal I switched to a VGA cord but that didn't help anything.
On the other PC's that I tried it with (and one laptop) the monitor auto adjusted to whatever signal it could get.
Perhaps this thread will lead you to a solution...
Nope, that just tells me what I already said. Thanks though.
I tried to see if I could get the get the monitor going if I hooked it up to the motherboards integrated graphics but had no luck their either.
I did see though that when I plug the monitor in to either the integrated or the card the monitor does seem to recognize it's been plugged into something as it comes out of standby for just a couple seconds to say that it's going to sleep and then goes into standby again.
Heres something you could try, you say you can not adjust signal because of a OS based control for th HP monitor, try using a conventional CVT or a different non HP monitor on this machine, if you can get a signal to either of thoes monitors than you problem might lie in the HP monitor....Just a thought.
PC issues after graphics card install... 
Nope, that just tells me what I already said. Thanks though.
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