MSI GTX 970 Compatibility Issue?

[John Adkins WV]

Hi,

 

I am having a bit of an issue.  I am in the process of migrating to a new system.  I have been upgrading a piece at a time and using the older parts until I can move on.  My start point is an old HP Pavillion h8-1124 with a i7-2600 processor and 8 GB of DDR3 RAM.  So far I have moved to a new NZXT case, added an EVGA SuperNOVA 750 B2 modular Power supply and replaced the drives with a Samsung 850 500GB and a WD Black 3 TB.  My next step was to replace the old 1 GB ATI graphics card with a new MSI 970 GTX 4 GB card.  

 

Here is where the problem arose.  I installed the card and attempted to boot up.  The HP flash screen comes up suggesting that the computer is talking to the monitor through the video card but it gives me a single beep, waits a bit, beeps once more followed by three beeps.  I tried to use F2 to enter the bios and that takes me to the system check screen that tells me how much RAM I have and the processor, etc.  It then refuses to go any further.

 

Any advice?  AT this point I plan to try the card out at work to ensure it works properly and then hold onto it until I can do the next step in my upgrade path (MB-Gigabyte LGA 1151 GA-Z170X Gaming-3, Memory 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4, and a i5-6600K with either  the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO or water cooling.  Unfortunately, this stage has to all happen at once.  Thanks for taking a look at this as I would love to have the video upgrade working while I save for the next steps.  Thanks.

 

John

[John Adkins WV]

Oh, to check and make certain that I had not messed something up I replaced the old video card and everything is working fine.  Thanks.

 

John

[GER_T4IGA]

Have you tried this yet? Although that beeping sounds bad I suggest having a look at it.

I don#t know what your exact case of beeping means but I agree with you that it is definitely not a sign of a happy computer.

[John Adkins WV]

4 minutes ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Have you tried this yet? Although that beeping sounds bad I suggest having a look at it.

I don#t know what your exact case of beeping means but I agree with you that it is definitely not a sign of a happy computer.

I think that I did everything listed.  Of course, I was getting some video and power was good - fans and lights on GTX were powered.  I even had the splash screen show up on the monitor.  It just hangs there.  I wonder if the MB is so old (2011) that it just cannot see the GTX.

 

John

 

Oh, to check and make certain that I had not messed something up I replaced the old video card and everything is working fine.  Thanks.

 

John

[John Adkins WV]

OK, I think I see the issue.  The card requires a PCI Express x16 3.0 slot and the MB has a 2.0 slot.  I guess I will need to wait on the new MB before things will work.  Thanks for looking at this folks.

 

John

[reptileexperts]

If your MOBO is a PCI-E 2.0 slot, that should be OK as long as it is x16 If its not x16 that is your main issue

[John Adkins WV]

As I looked into my existing hardware further it seems my MB is somewhat infamous.  It is an IPISB-CU (Carmel2) from Pegatron.  The forums suggest that they stopped supporting new NVIDIA cards at about the 600 series or 700 series.

 

The GTX states specifically that it needs a Gen 3 slot as well.

 

Thank you for looking at this though.  I am by no means an expert and this is my first PC Build since I did an old Pentium so I need lots of help