3 Beeps and a Black Screen with Blinking Underscore After Installing New Graphics Card

[BuckleySmash]

Hello. I recently bought an EVGA Geforce GT 730 graphics card to replace my old card. When I boot up the computer, it goes to the blue HP startup screen, beeps 3 times, and then goes to a black screen with a blinking underscore in the upper left corner. With my old card, the first screen I see has details regarding my graphics card, then I see the blue HP Startup screen, and then it goes into Windows. It boots up fine when I put my old card back in.

I've tried to look into solutions for this. One solution I've seen is to upgrade the power supply. My power supply is 300W and my new card requires a 300W power supply. When I originally got my old graphics card for an old computer, the power supply wasn't strong enough, and the computer beeped, but didn't display anything. So even though it's acting a little differently could the power supply be the issue?

I also read that updating the BIOS could help. I don't have a clue on how to do that.

I don't know what specs are important to share, so I'll just say it's a p7-1209 HP Desktop.

 

[stavrosmast]

nah on idle any psu can handle that gpu... Updating bios can help but its risky. Try to put other R.A.M at first

 

[stavrosmast]

Or you might not have mounted the gpu correctly?

 

[BuckleySmash]

Or you might not have mounted the gpu correctly?

At first I thought this was the answer but I've tried to re-seat it multiple times, and it's always the same result.

 

[BuckleySmash]

nah on idle any psu can handle that gpu... Updating bios can help but its risky. Try to put other R.A.M at first

Do you mean putting in new RAM? Or re-seating RAM? Or am I missing the point altogether?

 

[Spin2Timez]

nah on idle any psu can handle that gpu... Updating bios can help but its risky. Try to put other R.A.M at first

Do you mean putting in new RAM? Or re-seating RAM? Or am I missing the point altogether?

did you ever fix the issue and if so how?

 

[Lutfij]

Spin2Timez You responded to a thread nearly a decade ago.

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