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Inspiron 530, GTX 1050 Ti, installation issues
I've recently purchased a 1050 Ti to replace my old Ati 4850. I attempted to install it however, it gets stuck on the BIOS splash screen, it beeps once then it goes black then it displays the splash screen again then beeps a single time and goes black once again and so on and so forth until I turn it off. I read it can be fixed by updating the BIOS, however the BIOS is up to date at version 1.0.18 so I'm out of ideas. Which is why I'm here so that maybe this problem can be solved.
Thank you for any help you can offer
speedstep
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September 10th, 2018 04:00
530S power supply is too small. 1050 TI would be PCI-E 3.0 and that may not be compatible with your 2.0 bus. Other possibility is that this is a fake 1050 TI card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG2thEEqZAU
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September 10th, 2018 11:00
Thank you for taking the time to read and reply to my post; sorry I forgot to mention this but I have an antect earthwatts 650w psu so it can't be a power related problem, also I bought it from evga themselves https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Support-Graphics-04G-P4-6253-KR/dp/B01MF7EQJZ/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1536600131&sr=1-2&keywords=gtx+1050ti so unless they scammed me I doubt it's a fake, also I have a 530, not a 530s(I have the mini tower not the slim tower) and from what I've read it either has a 1.0 or 1.1 PCIe slot, either way it shouldn't present a problem other than a small drop in performance.
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September 13th, 2018 06:00
1.0 or 1.1 PCI-E is a problem. The line code used in PCI-E 1.0 to 2.0 is 8b/10b which is not forward compatible with 3.0 128b/130b. PCI Express 2.1 uses 128b/130b and the same power profile that 3.0 uses. From a speed and Line Code and Power perspective 1.1 and 2.0 cards will work but 2.1 and 3.0 cards will not. The difference is NEITHER forward NOR backward compatible. This is why older models like Precision 490/690 etc also DO NOT WORK at all with newer cards. 8b/10b is a line code that maps 8-bit words to 10-bit symbols and PCIe 3 uses 128b/130b line coding, so absolute worst case run length would be 129 bits (128 scrambled bits + half of the 2 bit sync header). This assumes that the scrambling PRBS and transmit data exactly coincide and cancel to zeros for the entire 128 bit data block, which is possible but extremely unlikely.
Key Specifications of Radeon 4850.