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Dell Optiplex 790 DT not booting up with ASUS Radeon HD 5450.

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Im thinking the card is dead. I have already purchased a GT 1030. Thank you for all the help anyone was trying to provide.

 

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I recently got a Dell optiplex 790 dt with a i3 2120 and 12gb 1333mhz ram. Im planning on getting a rx 550 low profile for it but I had a Radeon HD 5450 from awhile ago and decided to put it in. When I put it in the system will not post and will display 1,2,3,4 solid amber lights. I searched up what the numbers mean and it said the system was working normally.

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Some dell products you'll need to disable safe boot to get it to recognize the card.

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The GPU works in another system, right? 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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9 hours ago, ProjectBox153 said:

The GPU works in another system, right? 

It worked in the last system I tried to test it in

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11 hours ago, Heliian said:

Some dell products you'll need to disable safe boot to get it to recognize the card.

There is no option to disable Safe Boot.

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8 hours ago, BrentonOof said:

There is no option to disable Safe Boot.

OK, try the serr setting, it may need to be disabled.

 

It's also possible the card isn't compatible with the dell.  

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2 hours ago, Heliian said:

OK, try the serr setting, it may need to be disabled.

 

It's also possible the card isn't compatible with the dell.  

Forgot to mention that the card worked for like a day until I shut down my computer and rebooted it.

 

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On 2/12/2021 at 8:17 PM, Heliian said:

Maybe the card is causing the problem, pull it and try the onboard. 

Pulled it out and its fine

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