I wonder if anyone here could help me trouble shoot a motherboard/ bios problem I'm having combined with the gtx 750 single fan ( 02g-p4-3751-kr)
After installing my new gtx card without much trouble it worked, but only a few days in Dell Studio XPS 8100 running win10 64 bit
The PSU in the dell is only rated at 350w but the card i replaced had a slightly higher power consumption so i reckoned that the gtx card should be ok.
The dell only has a pci-e 2.0 slot, but then again this is backwards compatible. I had the card working, then updated drivers, and carried on using the pc as normal for a day or so.
My problem started when after a restart i could not get passed POST and got 6 beeps indicating a graphics problem. I tried this new card in another pc where it worked fine, running well at a stress test for over an hour, so the card is fine.
Rechecking my dell with my old card work fine as well, so I believe the mother board to also be ok.
To trouble shoot further, I have just gotten a new PSU, 500W with 38A available for the 12v bus, but this also makes no difference.
To finish I've cleared the cmos and checked I have the latest bios from Dell, this however is quite old, last updated in november 2011.
I'm, now at a loss what to do next. Should i try to replace the motherboard as well or just give up on trying to get this aged dell to work with a 4 k screen.
So far I bought the card, a psu and a new 27 inch 4k screen, so spend a bit of money
I could still return it all, but that would get me back to my old tired setup
Any thoughts or sugestions welcome
post edited by Marc16000 - 2015/09/02 13:36:38