1050ti not compatible

[TheNefurious]

I've bought an EVGA 1050ti for my old HP pc (http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c03069213), but after installing it pc wont start. I only get as far as the HP startup logo. Power related?

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, TheNefurious said:

I've bought an EVGA 1050ti for my old HP pc (http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c03069213), but after installing it pc wont start. I only get as far as the HP startup logo. Power related?

do you have any other PCIe cards installed ? 

first things that come to mind are: UEFI set to use iGPU by default, too many PCIe cards, or power limitation, but the 1050 can get by on the 75watts from the PCIe connector so that's unlikely.

[TheNefurious]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

do you have any other PCIe cards installed ? 

first things that come to mind are: UEFI set to use iGPU by default, too many PCIe cards, or power limitation, but the 1050 can get by on the 75watts from the PCIe connector so that's unlikely.

no, not any other pci cards installed, but it already had a gpu card installed out of the box. anyways, it freezes in booting so I cant get into BIOS anyways

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, TheNefurious said:

no, not any other pci cards installed, but it already had a gpu card installed out of the box. anyways, it freezes in booting so I cant get into BIOS anyways

ok do a cmos reset if you have a button for that, if not, find the watch/button battery on the board, pull it out and put it back in after a few secs. Failing that, find the CMOS clear jumpers on your board, move the jumper, do a power cycle, and move the jumper back. After this your BIOS will be at factory settings and should bootto BIOS on integrated graphics at least

[TheNefurious]

10 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

ok do a cmos reset if you have a button for that, if not, find the watch/button battery on the board, pull it out and put it back in after a few secs. Failing that, find the CMOS clear jumpers on your board, move the jumper, do a power cycle, and move the jumper back. After this your BIOS will be at factory settings and should bootto BIOS on integrated graphics at least

Trying it now, just gonna take out the battery and put it back in? then boot into bios with ig graphics

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, TheNefurious said:

Trying it now, just gonna take out the battery and put it back in? then boot into bios with ig graphics

yeah reseating the battery should do it, but yeah it might even boot through the 1050 after a factory reset but no guarantee, try integrated first just to check your BIOS out.

[DnFx91]

4 minutes ago, TheNefurious said:

Trying it now, just gonna take out the battery and put it back in? then boot into bios with ig graphics

after a stupidity check, i noticed in your first post you said you were at least getting the HP logo through the 1050 right ?

 

 

[TheNefurious]

3 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

after a stupidity check, i noticed in your first post you said you were at least getting the HP logo through the 1050 right ?

 

 

yeah it keeps freezing on the HP startup logo where it says "press esc for startup menu". didnt get any further after resetting the battery

 

[DnFx91]

18 minutes ago, TheNefurious said:

yeah it keeps freezing on the HP startup logo where it says "press esc for startup menu". didnt get any further after resetting the battery

 

and it does the same thing on integrated gfx ?

[TheNefurious]

7 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

and it does the same thing on integrated gfx ?

no, only with the 1050ti

 

[DnFx91]

3 minutes ago, TheNefurious said:

no, only with the 1050ti

 

does the 1050 have a BIOS/UEFI setting ? it might be struggling if it's running in UEFI mode and your board is expecting a legacy mode card. boot into BIOS on integrated and post pics of each screen, something will surely stand out.

[DnFx91]

1 hour ago, TheNefurious said:

I've bought an EVGA 1050ti for my old HP pc (http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c03069213), but after installing it pc wont start. I only get as far as the HP startup logo. Power related?

i think i have the final answer for you.

 

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Unable-to-boot-with-new-graphics-card/td-p/3930544

 

It appears that a lot of people have had problems with HP motherboards and GPU's in UEFI mode. Officially your board may not support GTX9xx series cards or newer, not at least without a bios update. So your best bet is to boot into windows on integrated graphics, do a bios update, (shit yourself and hold your breath while it does that), then put the 1050 back in and see if it can get past POST.

[TheNefurious]

It looks like the BIOS update drivers for the mobo is not on the HP page anymore. Did a good search for it but it turned out it did not want to show up. I've tried to install the newest driver for the gfx card but the pc won't recognize the card. Got any ideas?

[TheNefurious]

1 minute ago, TheNefurious said:

It looks like the BIOS update drivers for the mobo is not on the HP page anymore. Did a good search for it but it turned out it did not want to show up. I've tried to install the newest driver for the gfx card but the pc won't recognize the card. Got any ideas?

the 1050ti that is

[DnFx91]

9 minutes ago, TheNefurious said:

the 1050ti that is

yeah i just checked HP's support site for this desktop myself, what a shockingly shit website. So they have a listing for firmware but it's for the DVD drive of all things. I managed to find BIOS version 7.16 rev A on this site here https://driverscollection.com/_47364428628555d21586db609c1/Download-HP-Pavilion-p6-2055sc-BIOS-v.7.16-Re.-A-free but it was released in 2012 which might not help, and using a BIOS from third party website is just playing with fire. Sad to say mate i think you might be stuck there, unless you can find a BIOS version for that MOBO which can boot with UEFI graphics cards

[TheNefurious]

Should I boot through ig gfx when installing the new bios?

[TheNefurious]

OK I somehow got into the boot menu, any advice?

[demonix00]

6 hours ago, DnFx91 said:

yeah i just checked HP's support site for this desktop myself, what a shockingly shit website. So they have a listing for firmware but it's for the DVD drive of all things. I managed to find BIOS version 7.16 rev A on this site here https://driverscollection.com/_47364428628555d21586db609c1/Download-HP-Pavilion-p6-2055sc-BIOS-v.7.16-Re.-A-free but it was released in 2012 which might not help, and using a BIOS from third party website is just playing with fire. Sad to say mate i think you might be stuck there, unless you can find a BIOS version for that MOBO which can boot with UEFI graphics cards

Actually HP does still list the 7.16 rev.A BIOS update on their site, although to find it I had to select a different variant of the P6-2XXX series and select an older OS for it to actually list BIOS updates, so that BIOS file you found is most what they obtained from the HP website and since UEFI has been around on PC motherboard since before the date of that BIOS update it is possible that it will work with getting it to boot properly with the 1050Ti.

[DnFx91]

13 hours ago, demonix00 said:

Actually HP does still list the 7.16 rev.A BIOS update on their site, although to find it I had to select a different variant of the P6-2XXX series and select an older OS for it to actually list BIOS updates, so that BIOS file you found is most what they obtained from the HP website and since UEFI has been around on PC motherboard since before the date of that BIOS update it is possible that it will work with getting it to boot properly with the 1050Ti.

that's cool, glad someone else suffered that woeful website to find it. Fingers crossed you can boot through that 1050 after flashing that BIOS