Trying to upgrade but it's not working help?

[Anthony_Thomas]

Trying to upgrade to a Nvidia 1660 super from a gtx 750

and currently my motherboard is Intel b75 with a CPU i7-2600 and ddr3 8x2-16 power supply is 550w bygears.

i put the 1660 in and my computer refused to boot up or when it did it would be extremely slow and almost unusable solutions?

[Erebus]

I assume you are running Windows. Check Device Manager. Does Windows recognize the new graphics card? Remove drivers from the old card and install the driver for the new card?

[Anthony_Thomas]

It did recognize the graphics card and I had switched it to the 1660 but after that everything kept going downhill and now whenever I put the 1660 in my PC doesn’t even boot up although I forgot to remove the old drivers mainly because I don’t know how

[Anthony_Thomas]

I assume you are running Windows. Check Device Manager. Does Windows recognize the new graphics card? Remove drivers from the old card and install the driver for the new card?

Another problem may be that my computers motherboard is old and I’m running on legacy bios any way to fix that if that is the problem ?

[Pyro]

Let’s get some more information:

Download and run speccy.

Once you have ran speccy, follow the instructions to upload a snapshot found here.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:
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[li]In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.[/li][li]In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.[/li][li]Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot dialog box. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.[/li][/ol]

Please list your power supply unit by name/efficiency rating or by model.

When you install a new graphics card you need to completely uninstall the old drivers before installing the new unit and drivers, this must all be done offline and I can walk you through it once I have the information above.

Plug your old GPU into the computer to run speccy and we’ll go from there.

[Anthony_Thomas]

Ok will do just give me a few minutes

[Erebus]

I forgot to remove the old drivers mainly because I don’t know how

This can be done in the device manager.

You might want to install your old graphics card back temporarily.

[Anthony_Thomas]

Let’s get some more information:

Download and run speccy.

Once you have ran speccy, follow the instructions to upload a snapshot found here.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

Please list your power supply unit by name/efficiency rating or by model.

When you install a new graphics card you need to completely uninstall the old drivers before installing the new unit and drivers, this must all be done offline and I can walk you through it once I have the information above.

Plug your old GPU into the computer to run speccy and we’ll go from there.

Ok will do just give me a couple of
minutes to install it and post the specs

[Anthony_Thomas]

This can be done in the device manager.

You might want to install your old graphics card back temporarily.

I did I have been using my old one for the past couple of days since I didn’t know what to do

[Anthony_Thomas]

Let’s get some more information:

Download and run speccy.

Once you have ran speccy, follow the instructions to upload a snapshot found here.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

Please list your power supply unit by name/efficiency rating or by model.

When you install a new graphics card you need to completely uninstall the old drivers before installing the new unit and drivers, this must all be done offline and I can walk you through it once I have the information above.

Plug your old GPU into the computer to run speccy and we’ll go from there.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/j...8oxYILW7VXdJGn the power supply is b-vigor 550w

[Pyro]

Run DDU and download a fresh installer executable from here.

An important note: You MUST download the driver executable and disconnect your computer from the internet before running DDU, otherwise Windows will automatically download drivers (which you don’t want).

Once you have ran DDU in safe mode, install the new gpu and then boot up into a normal Windows session (ensuring that you aren’t connected to the internet for even a moment) and run the NVIDIA installer.

Restart your computer from the power menu and see if this helps.

[Anthony_Thomas]

Ok so I did that and I have it in but it’s still getting stuck on the windows screen it also seems to be shutting off my keyboard and mouse besides that the GPU light is on and so are the lights on my PC

[Pyro]

At this point I’d be concerned about how your power supply is interacting with the GPU, what you have is not sufficient for use in a gaming system.

The only thing worse than a known bad PSU, is an unknown one, and this brand seems very obsolete. Since there is no efficiency rating and the 1660 Super should have a quality 550-650W PSU depending on your other components I would be very suspicious that this is the culprit.

Let’s get a couple more opinions to double over any other possibilities.
@Bruce
@PeterOz

[Anthony_Thomas]

At this point I’d be concerned about how your power supply is interacting with the GPU, what you have is not sufficient for use in a gaming system.

The only thing worse than a known bad PSU, is an unknown one, and this brand seems very obsolete. Since there is no efficiency rating and the 1660 Super should have a quality 550-650W PSU depending on your other components I would be very suspicious that this is the culprit.

Let’s get a couple more opinions to double over any other possibilities.
@Bruce
@PeterOz

That does make sense it’s iether that or I heard that it could be my motherboard because it’s pretty old and only has a legacy bios but could you point me in the right direction for a good psu and a compatible one im not familiar with that

[Bruce]

I concur about the power supply, I’d be upgrading that as a first step.
I’d also check to see if there are any BIOS updates available that may have new firmware for later graphics cards.