Cj2i3 on 08 April 2014
| Pemalite said: Updating a BIOS rarely fixes compatibility issues between the motherboard and graphics card, this ain't the socket 370 days anymore. :P As for updating the BIOS, most after market motherboards have automatic BIOS recovery options that would restore it in the event of a failure, but this being an OEM machine, you don't have such a luxury. The graphics card should literally be plug-and play, no bios changes needed as you already had a PCI-E graphics card in the system as your primary display output. Also a beeping graphics card? You sure it's not the motherboard? Graphics cards generally don't have a speaker to beep with, thus if the motherboard is beeping it could be a multitude of reasons like: Ram not seated correctly, unable to detect graphics card, power cable not plugged in properly etc'. - Which if that's the case, regardless of your BIOS revision, won't solve that issue. Power wise, you're fine. The reason why AMD and nVidia list those PSU requirements is simple, it's to account for dozens of drives, power hungry CPU's, variability in PSU's output power ratings etc'. I.E. - Worse case scenario, it has no bearing if you actually need a 400w PSU or not. Keep in mind that when installing different brands of graphics cards like AMD or nVidia, it is always wise to uninstall the drivers first before changing over to a different brand of card, driver sweeper is your friend in this regard, it can save a ton of headaches. |
Yeah probably not the graphics card beeping than my mistake. I uninstalled the drivers for AMD unless it's possible there was something left behind, I figured this was going to be a plug and play type thing and I mean at this point the only thing is the bios or left over driver issues.
