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Out of pure curiosity, what is the worst that could have happened when I plugged in the card when the computer was asleep? I'm not planning to do it again lol, but I would just like to know 

Fried the gpu or even the whole system.

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Fried the gpu or even the whole system.

:mellow:  :mellow:  :mellow:  :mellow:  As one of the earlier posters said, may God have mercy on my soul...

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:mellow:  :mellow:  :mellow:  :mellow:  As one of the earlier posters said, may God have mercy on my soul...

Yep. You never ever mess around with power cables when the system is on. Same with data cables except when hot-plug is enabled in sata, as an example.

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So I did some Googling and found this post on Lenovo's site with the exact issue you have.  If your 290 works in a friends rig, then the motherboard BIOS is most likely the culprit.

 

Those P67 boards did not come with UEFI originally and I guess newer video cards need to see a UEFI BIOS these days or they won't work right.  I vaguely remember the same issue when I went from a GTX 770 (pre UEFI hardware) to my GTX 780.  I had to upgrade my motherboard BIOS and I was good to go.

 

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaCentre-Desktops-Home-Servers/Ideacentre-k330-GPU-Upgrade/td-p/1555640

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I can HEAR the windows login sounds through my speakers, but can't see any picture

In this case, there's nothing wrong with the rest of your PC. It's your GPU. Try a different cable using a different connector. If that doesn't fix it and you can still hear windows booting normally but get no picture, there's an issue with the GPU itself

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So I did some Googling and found this post on Lenovo's site with the exact issue you have.  If your 290 works in a friends rig, then the motherboard BIOS is most likely the culprit.

 

Those P67 boards did not come with UEFI originally and I guess newer video cards need to see a UEFI BIOS these days or they won't work right.  I vaguely remember the same issue when I went from a GTX 770 (pre UEFI hardware) to my GTX 780.  I had to upgrade my motherboard BIOS and I was good to go.

 

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaCentre-Desktops-Home-Servers/Ideacentre-k330-GPU-Upgrade/td-p/1555640

Oh wow, thank you so much! I can't believe that I didn't find that myself lol. I appreciate all the help that you've been giving me. I've looked through that post and other k330 posts on the Lenovo forum and people seem to be having the same problem with upgrading the gpu. I wonder though, how my computer recognized the card (look at the first page of this thread) when I made the mistake of plugging it in when the computer was asleep. That wouldn't seem to be possible if the MOBO did not recognize the card, but I might be wrong. I guess my plan at this point is to go to a local computer repair shop and see if they can somehow get it to work. If not, anyone want a 290 and a PSU? :'D

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lol, why not just get a new motherboard..  You can run a p67 or z77 board with the newest bios available and everything should run fine.

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System 2:  AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X | MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC | 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series DDR4-3000 | AMD 5700 (flashed with 5700XT bios) | custom loop (1x 280mm rad, 1 x 120mm rad, Optimus Absolute Threadripper 3+, Heatkiller IV for reference 5700, Aquacompter D5 NEXT, Alphacool dual-bay res w/ D5 mount) | Seasonic GX-850 | Silverstone FT-02 (red/black) | Windows 10 Pro x64 | 512GB Toshiba RD400 NVMe (OS) | 2x Seagate 4TB SSHD in RAID 1 via LSI 9265-8i | 55" LG C9 OLED

 

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