Gpu won't work in old inspiron

[Stevoisboss]

So I have this old inspiron and I wanted to use it to run some light games. So I put an R7 240 in it that I had lying around. I tested it in another PC and it works fine. When I put the graphics card in, the fan spins on the GPU  and all the fans in the computer spin as well. However no image is displayed. It displays an image fine when the graphics card is not in and it runs off the iGPU. PSU is 300W. I put in pictures if that helps. Any help is greatly appreciated. 

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^above: Picture of PC without gpu installed. 

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^specs

[star_weaver]

im pretty sure these snowflake boards, as i like to call them, can only do 25W through PCIe as apposed to the full 75W so that could be your problem

[aisle9]

Try resetting your CMOS. It might be a BIOS issue. Some of those older Dells are picky.

[demonix00]

On 4/6/2018 at 5:39 PM, star_weaver said:

im pretty sure these snowflake boards, as i like to call them, can only do 25W through PCIe as apposed to the full 75W so that could be your problem

That would normally be for SFF systems which this isn't, but I would suggest checking if the BIOS mode is set to UEFI or legacy as it could be picky running a UEFI card in legacy BIOS mode (I know it the opposite for my dell precision t1600 as it won't recognise a GT610 in the top PCI-E slot when it's in UEFI mode).

 

On 4/6/2018 at 6:40 PM, demonix00 said:

That would normally be for SFF systems which this isn't, but I would suggest checking if the BIOS mode is set to UEFI or legacy as it could be picky running a UEFI card in legacy BIOS mode (I know it the opposite for my dell precision t1600 as it won't recognise a GT610 in the top PCI-E slot when it's in UEFI mode).

well if its just sff ones, then ill keep that in mind for next time, then again this is dell we talking about so the rulebooks been thrown in the fire

[Stevoisboss]

On 4/6/2018 at 5:59 PM, Andydandyfiddy said:

Have you enabled the PCI-E x16 in the BIOS?

 

It is possible to disable it (On a few Dell systems as far as I am concerned) so it might be that

There was no setting in the bios related to pcie unfortunately. 

 

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On 4/6/2018 at 6:09 PM, aisle9 said:

Try resetting your CMOS. It might be a BIOS issue. Some of those older Dells are picky.

Didn't work

 

On 4/6/2018 at 6:40 PM, demonix00 said:

That would normally be for SFF systems which this isn't, but I would suggest checking if the BIOS mode is set to UEFI or legacy as it could be picky running a UEFI card in legacy BIOS mode (I know it the opposite for my dell precision t1600 as it won't recognise a GT610 in the top PCI-E slot when it's in UEFI mode).

Doesn't have either setting ;-;

 

Bios Settings If anyone is interested.

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Menu: 

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Advanced: 

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Advanced>CPU Config:

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Advanced>System Config:

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Advanced>Power Management: 

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Advanced>Post Behavior: 

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[demonix00]

first thing you should do is update the BIOS as you're several revisions out of date (current version is A10 while you're on A04) even though I'm not sure that will fix the issue since the BIOS you have appears to be before dell went to the more current UEFI interface (or just didn't bother) that is on my precision T1600.

[Stevoisboss]

On 4/8/2018 at 5:26 PM, demonix00 said:

first thing you should do is update the BIOS as you're several revisions out of date (current version is A10 while you're on A04) even though I'm not sure that will fix the issue since the BIOS you have appears to be before dell went to the more current UEFI interface (or just didn't bother) that is on my precision T1600.

Didn't fix it but thanks for the help. I think its just the board