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I am buying a GTX 750 ti (Palit )for an old prebuilt desktop (HP Pavilion p6557c) which uses a Pegatron M2N86-LA motherboard. Upon doing further reading, I have read on other forums that the 750 ti can have compatibility issues with old HP OEM motherboards due to being limited only to Legacy BIOS. Since learning this, I have decided on obtaining a used Asrock N68-VS3-FX (socket AM3+) motherboard. My question is: 1. Will my GTX 750 ti work on the Asrock N68-VS3 FX? since I am not sure if it uses UEFI nor does it have a list of supported GPUs. here's a link to it's product page: http://www.asrock.com/mb/nvidia/n68-vs3 fx/ Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
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Hi, so my old drive (adata sx900 128g) was able to boot with Legacy+UEFI enabled with no problem. I now upgraded this ssd to crucial mx300 525gb and I firstly had a problem with booting. With Legacy+UEFI, it showed only a black screen saying "reboot and select proper boot device or insert a boot media in selected boot device and press a key". Nothing happened when I pressed a key. After restarting and changing boot mode to UEFI, it boots normally, a bit slower though. Is this just my problem or I am missing something?
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Hi All, My grandfather recently got a new desktop that is installed with windows 10 (which he likes) to replace his windows 7 computer from 2008. He has had conflicting help from several people in regard to transfering data (because he knows all the folder names, programs, etc in his old computer). Rather than transfer data, I simply added his old hard drive to his new computer (so the new computer now has 2 HDD's). Now, he can access all of his old files from file explorer> my computer>OS:F. However, I (and He) would like to dual boot his new computer with both windows 10 (which is installed on the new hard drive) and windows 7 (which is installed on the older hard drive, which is now in the same computer). I attempted to use EasyBCD, but his new computer's windows 10 installation was running in UEFI mode, which caused several problems when attempting to dual boot windows 7 (installed under legacy mode). How should/can I fix this so that I can use a bootloader to let him pick between windows 7 and windows 10? (The ones he already has installed with programs and files). NOTES: -These are not custom built machines, both are Dell Studio XPS with proprietary hardware/drivers (for the most part). One from 2008 with a 1st gen i7, the other from 2016 with a 6th gen-skylake i7. -The reason for dual booting is because he adores windows 7, but likes windows 10 and is slowly becoming more familiar with it. He often needs to go back to 7 for certain tasks. -He is NOT computer literate in any way. -Switching the bios from UEFI to Legacy allows me to boot into windows 7, but I can't boot into windows 10 (Changing the boot order yields the error "No OS Detected"). -Currently, the only way I can switch back and forth between 10 and 7 (that I know of) is to switch the BIOS back and forth between legacy and UEFI. Thanks in advance! -
My second pc build went somewhat smoothly until it came to actually booting up the pc. The computer posts and I can get to the bios via the gpu but both of my drives are not detected and don’t show up in the boot menu/boot priority. Switching the sata modes doesn’t work. I don’t know what else to do to hopefully install an os other than getting a new mobo or new drives or both.
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First of all any help is much appreciated. I have never built or done major upgrades to a PC before. TLDR: Are new GPUs compatible with Legacy bios? What are my options? I have a Dell XPS 8700 that I would like to breathe some life into. It has an i7 4790 CPU, 24 gigs of RAM, SSD, couple HDDs, and a really outdated and basically useless GPU. I am hoping to upgrade the GPU and also the power supply. The long term goal is to build a new PC at some point but I figure the GPU and PSU are a good start that can be swapped to a new build. After doing a bunch of research about size requirements (the case is constrained, MOBO obstacles, etc.) and measuring I am hoping to get a 5700 xt or similar. Then I read about BIOS compatibility and people said new cards (especially 3rd party AMD cards) often don't work with Legacy bios. Is this true? Anyway around this? I went into the BIOS settings and the computer is indeed in Legacy BIOS, the drives are MBR etc. so if there is an issue can I use an MBR to GPT converter on boot drive (or all drives?) and then boot in UEFI mode? I really appreciate any insight that you may have!
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Hi, greetings from Argentina! I have an old HP PRO 3400MT PC (Foxconn 2ABF motherboard) with an i7 2600 and 8gb ddr3 1333Mhz that i want to give to my GF to play some games. Recently i changed the power supply of my PC and i put the old 550w PSU to the HP and worked great (with the Processor Integrated Graphics) BUT it doesn't work when i put a newer graphics card (GTX 1050ti) I read in some forums that the problem is something related to Legacy BIOS... I updated the BIOS as they recommend (to 7.16) and it still doesn't work... What can i do? some solution? UPDATE! I tried a glitch in the motherboard that a guy find and shared on YouTube, IT WORKED! but is a little tricky to make it run (and like 3 minutes of waiting). Also i read a post of a guy who recommends to flash a moded bios but for that i need to reeplace the Bios chip on the mother 'cause the new bios is 8Mb and the chip of the HP is 4mb... I don't have the tools needed for that so i think that wait 3 minutes until the PC is fine for now, but i will change the Mother+Case sometime. Thank you all! -
Installing F4 from F3 worked fine, but after installing BIOS F5a on a Gigabyte Aorus Master sTRX40, my Windows installation would not boot. I thought the BIOS wasn't seeing the drive etc etc so I booted from a disc and did startup repair and then it went straight in! I noticed that I no longer have a UEFI partition, or a system reserved partition. Instead I have a random 128MB partition as the F: drive letter on my SSD and a 261MB unallocated partition. My secondary HDD also has a random 185MB unallocated partition. Running system information showed the BIOS mode is Legacy! I have no idea how this has happened! I have never ever converted from UEFI to Legacy! Also in disk management if I right click the SSD, it says "convert to GPT" as greyed out implying it has also been converted to MBR in the process. Please can somebody explain how I can convert it back to UEFI, convert it back to GPT, and get the necessary partitions back so I can boot up and undo what Windows has done? Thank you in advance!
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I have windows installed on one ssd in legacy mode, 2 other ssd's and 2 other hdd's are installed as storage for programs and files. This week i want to upgrade to an NVME ssd drive and i want to clean install a system on it in UEFI mode which shouldn't be a problem. My question is when i boot in UEFI mode on the new nvme drive, will i see my storage drives, my data on them and so on?
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Upgrading an almost decade-old PC. Please advise.
xmaestr0 posted a topic in New Builds and Planning
Hi. I was given an old, but still functioning, HP Pro desktop and decided that I would gradually max it out instead of just throwing it away. It is not my daily PC but I plan on having it for entertainment in my house for movies, internet browsing and maybe some gaming, where capable. Here are its current specs: Processor: Intel Core i3-530 (73W) with its stock heat sink and fan. Motherboard: HP MS-7613 LGA 1156 RAM: 8 GB (4x2GB 1333 mhz) GPU: Nvidia GTX 650 TI PSU: 500W Please give me advice on the best CPU and the GPU to buy for this motherboard. Also, I'd like to ask if it would also be necessary to upgrade the heat sink and fan if I replace the current CPU with a quad-core one without any intention of overclocking it. Please help. Thanks! -
I have B450 asus tuf pro mobo and p660 m.2 from intel on the old computer i made bootable usb with 2nd gen ISO image and format it with GPT - UEFI non-CSM I cant boot from that and i dont know why... im trying now with MBR format UEFI-CSM i thought since everything's new it will work just fine Legacy MBR partition on new PC??
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Hi , a friend of mine gave as gift this old p5b deluxe from asus with cpu and ram already installed, so I've build the system with a fsp Hydro pro 500w but unf. No post and no beep, everything is hooked up correctly but today I've thinked something, does this board needs -5v? My psu is new so like any new psu it doesn't have the -5v pin but in the manual of p5b deluxe I found this graph indicating -5v ( even if the board is from 2006 I think) it is maybe the cause for non booting?
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Sony just announced the LA-EA5 adapter, unofficially bringing an end to the A mount. But, that doesn't mean you have to throw away your A-mount lenses! This adapter will allow users to adapt older lenses to newer bodies (lke the one shown in the video below. An interesting feature is that it supports autofocus in lenses that don't have an internal autofocussing system like the Sonnar T* 135mm f/1.8 ZA and Planar T* 85mm f/1.4 ZA. Priced at $248, it'll begin shipping in October 2020. Here's a full compatibility list: LA-EA5 compatibility page Source: https://fstoppers.com/gear/sony-la-ea5-lens-adapter-unofficially-bookends-mount-514601 -
Hi All, I recently purchased new SSD and normal HDD. I'm facing issues while installing windows 10. I got my usb drive loaded with windows 10 from rufus (GPT type). In the bios setting, I set the boot mode as legacy+UEFI and chose usb stick to install windows. But it threw an error saying I need to boot using UEFI mode. So I changed the setting to UEFI in the boot setting and tried to boot from pendrive. But it's not working. The screen just freezes and nothing happens. Also I don't find option to disable secure boot in the bios setting. Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming motherboard. Is there any option available to boot using UEFI mode or I should recreate usb again with MBR type ?
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I have a Sapphire X1650 pro that I am trying to install on windows XP. I have the correct version of the ccc installer (10.2), but drivers and ccc just don't install. Is it impossible to install these drivers without the actual disk? How am I meant to do this?
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Without just saying "It's a new, better version of BIOS". They want to know what's actually different about how it works and what is "better" about it. -
here some problem with 1 of my customer AIO pc we did format to legacy mode but after she using it for 2 or 3 days it will revert back to uefi mode that it will back to bios menu that i still think that it impossible it will revert to uefi boot mode i really getting frustrated for her computer that i wanted to say to her get a new one if not satisfy with the computer you had
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I've been scouring the web for a place to buy new GPUs from older product lines, like the Titan X or Titan Black and GTX 980 TI. But I can't find a place that sells them new. I don't want to buy from ebay because I don't want to spend 300 dollars on something that won't work.
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So I recently discovered about 50 programs/movies/games for Windows XP. Absolutely overjoyed, I fired up compatibility mode, only to find that random bugs a frequent across multiple applications (Saved data being lost, no audio, missing textures, extreme artifacting, and hard crashes, just to name a few). I've decided that I have my heart set on a retro build, and I began looking around. Austin Evans put up a video that was pretty good, but the prices on the parts are a little much, and the hardware seemed overkill (especially the CPU, an 8-core AMD 9590 OC'd to 5 Ghz) Is there a more modest build that I could do? I'm perfectly content with a 32 bit version of the OS and I don't need a ton of storage either. I just want 100% driver support and as few bugs as possible.
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Os the BIOS of the 8300 legacy /uefi
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Hi guys, back again for some more info, as you seem to be the most knowledgeable forum on the webs! So I have an old netbook with an atom n270 (I think). Either way it's a 32-bit chip with legacy bios only. Got 3 OS's on it (2 Linux and windows 10 for if I need it) but I had to use an extended partition for the 3rd. Was doing some research into MBR and GPT. So my question is, do you reckon I could boot using GPT (I know windows wouldn't boot from it, but I'm getting a decent laptop soon so that doesn't matter to me) on a 32-bit legacy system, I know 32-bit isn't an issue but does GPT require a UEFI system? The only info I can find is for 32-bit UEFI systems so am a bit stuck. TIA!
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hey every one, i got a small problem with a dual boot to explain it easy i just can not get ubuntu and windows to work on a single drive now lets explain what i all dit , so you can see what went wrong first of all , i use a M.2 NVME drive ( crusial 1TB , the P1 ) i use a usb stick with E2B (Easy To Boot, just like rufus only better ) that let me choose a iso that is located on the usb, it use a grub boot loader and some other software to make a easy boot usb drive so i first install windows 10 on the fresh disk i splitted up the disk in 2 parts , each 500Gb ( 2 parts in total) windows for some reason feels that it need to take the second partition as boot loader ... every time after windows is installed , then i update windows and after a couple reboots then i start over with ubuntu ( zorin ) now the problem starts it says that it found a windows installation and want to install it next to it ... but it only finds the 500gb part of windows if i install it on there , then the second partition is lost ... as i wanted to install it on there after successful install , only windows boot up .. so final result is only 1 partition is in use and i lost 50% of my capacity and linux does not even boot up (only windows loader ) after using the boot loader command in linux i got it partial working , but the boot loader program in windows messed up the windows boot ... so restart and just use the full drive then ? no partitions made start windows , clean the drives , select the non allocated space and windows create again a own boot partition ( boot loader ) now when i want to install linux , i got again the option to install it next to windows ... except that it does not find any windows installations except for the usb disk ... that contains only the windows iso ... manual assigning the partitions fot the linux install breaks my windows install i tried this in both uefi mode and legacy mode so far i can not get it working maybe i should start with linux first and put windows over it ?? or is windows 10 that much changed from windows 7 or xp so dual boot does not work that nice anymore as in the old days ? does any one got a solution how i can get this dual boot work on 2 separate partitions and keep 50% of the drive for each operating system ? Thank you Greets From Powerchaos ps: for the users who want to know what specs this pc has ( in case you think that stuff is wrong ? ) I3-7100 Asus Prime B-250 Pro ( Bios 1205) Crusial P1 (M.2)
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So... Just saw this around twitter and not sure if the news is around the forum... Apparently the GTX900 is soon to be named "Legacy" graphics cards, and these where released around 2014 weren't they? I personally think this is Nvidia just trying to A--H---s and playing the monopoly game to in a way "force" ppl into getting a 1000 card if they want the latest driver support. Too early for the 900 series to drop off, or the right time for them to be dropped off?
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Hi all, I've been wandering around Google for hours now and still haven't found any solution or work around to my problem. I've fresh installed Windows 10 on a new system. Specs: i5-6600K, 8Gb, GTX1060, 620W PSU, H110 motherboard. I've set up pretty much everything but after I restarted I noticed my boot logo (where the Windows 10 logo would show up with those circling dots) was changed to Gigabyte's Ultra Durable logo. I've read you'll have that if you boot Windows as UEFI and not Legacy. So I tinkered it a bit. Changed it from UEFI to Legacy in the bios but it didn't change. I saw some ways to change the boot logo but all I've seen only works if the boot mode in MSINFO32 equals to Legacy not UEFI. However, even after changing the boot mode in the bios as Legacy that didn't change what's in MSINFO32. I don't know how that exactly works so I'm turning to you more knowledgeable folks. Anyway I can revert the legacy boot logo from Gigabyte's ugly Ultra Durable boot logo? Also when I press Windows + L and lock my desktop and goes to the screen where you have the time and supposedly a picture from Microsoft will display, I'm only getting a black screen with the Time and other stuff set from Settings. The photo only appears when you click on it when your username and Sign in button is displayed. I would really love not to Reset Windows. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Friend recently bought a 1070 but ran into some issues installing. It would always get stuck on Mobo splash screen until he switched bios to Legacy Boot Mode, but now his RealTek Sound drivers show a Code 10 error and no sound is playing from his computer. Speakers and headphones do not show under playback devices, and his blue yeti shows to be a speaker under said playback devices. We have followed almost everything we could find on the internet regarding troubleshooting, but nothing seems to be fixing it. Is there anything else we should try? -
Hey everyone! I'm in the proces of installing Chrome OS on my 10year old laptop, but for that, through the video I watched, I need to go intro the Bios and then change the boot mode from UEF1to Legacy, but I can't find an option for that! Any help? the laptop is an old MSI EX6000 with this specs: intel Pentium duel cpu T2390 @ 1.86GHz Windows Vista installed 3GB of memory( I think, i'm not 100% certain of that though) My USB with the Chrome OS installed on is already plugged in In the pictures you find Some photo's from inside the BIOS sorry for bad spelling! Still learning english, feel free to correct me!
