Hi,
 
I just bought a new GTX960 SC.
When I boot my PC bios notifies me that something is not ok with one short beep followed by 3 short beeps.
I just measured the voltage of the external 6 pin power connector and I have 3x 12V.


Does anyone know what the error code one beep followed by 3 beeps means?
 
I have a HP H9 1100eb system
 
Best Regards,
Kenneth

Right, was just looking up that information.
 
unfortunately no links allowed
 
Motherboard: IPISB-CH2 (Chicago)
Power supply: 600W
Image added with more information (bios version ect...)

If there isn't an updated, UEFI bios, you are stuck. You could try calling them. They might help you out.

Sir, what was your previous video card? Your post is making me sweat. I was told it would work fine on my PC, but now I fear it won't. Damn!!!
 
I myself just recently purchased a GTX 960 SC that's on the way.

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to test a GPU in every iteration of motherboard and BIOS. OEM motherboards are always more problematic when attempting to update hardware. The BIOS are more limited and designed to work with a more limited range of hardware. A quick search using your motherboard model shows you're not the only one with this issue.

My PC is Deel Inspiron 660, the i5 3330 version. Can anyone check the BIOS compatibility for me? I don't know how.

It's msinfo32

Hello and welcome to the forums Navsea! I'm sorry to hear that the GTX 960 you purchased isn't fuctioning with your HP. Unfortunately the issue isn't on the video card side of compatibility. I've seen 900 series cards run fine on boards as old as x58 and z68 boards from 5+  years ago, and i personally run two 970s on a z68 FTW with no issues. The problem comes from the motherboard not recognizing video cards with newer architectures. Usually this can be resolved by the motherboard manufacturer updating the firmware to recognize newer generation cards. It appears both the Dell and HP systems mentioned above came out about four years ago. Pre-built system manufacturers tend to stop updates about a year or so after the release of the system, so it's highly unlikely that the manufactuers will have a newer firmware that would help in this situation.
 
Now, not all systems will have this problem, so we can't say exactly what systems will or won't work with a specific generation of video card. With the sheer number of different systems from different manufacturer's, not to mention possible variations of hardware configurations among the same models, its' just not feasible to acquire and test for compatibility with pre-built systems. Because of this, we generally recommend that if you have an older system and you need to replace the video card, you look at a video card from around the time your system was new. With a four year old system, a 600 series or older video card would have the best likelihood of working.
 
 

skippergonzo
seems odd the card wont work. I have a five year old system I built and the Z68 motherboard has a legacy BIOS. My GTX 750 worked great, now my GTX950FTW works just fine.
My question is; since his BIOS is legasy, why wont his MB recognize the card?

His BIOS is a version of UEFI. As was pointed out, OEM systems have a tendency to have a generic BIOS that is limited and limited in detecting and assigning resources to newer hardware. Look at my hardware, my 980Ti is running just fine. In his particular case, it is a matter of the OEM updating the BIOS.

Thanks for all the help guys, this is where the story ends.
Hopefully I can still find one of these older cards...