With horrible pc parts price I bought this Office PC with a Asus Prime B360M-K to upgrade as a gaming pc but the chiniese GTX 1650 Low profile I bought does not boot sometimes. It gives 1 long beep and 3 short beeps gap and another beep. card fan does spin all the time.
You don’t have enough power supply.
Do I see only 20 pins of the 24 pin motherboard power connector actually filled there? Your 1650 is getting all its power from the motherboard, so you might be right on the edge of what the power supply that came with the office PC can handle.
Look into Nvidia MATS/MODS if you want to test the card and its memory. It’s Nvidia’s own internal diagnostic software.
Look up the beep codes for your motherboard in the manual (find on their website) to confirm what the beeps mean. (Good to have downloaded/bookmarked anyway)
Next/first, with the computer turned off at the PSU (but still plugged in) try removing and re-slotting the GPU (there may be a button/leaver to release it on the motherboard. There may also be a screw holding it into the case on the inside at the back). If it only sometimes doesn’t work, that indicates it’s probably just a bad connection.
I’ve a similar board. Long-short-short-short means no graphics adapter detected, and then that pause with one short beep I think means no keyboard detected.
Edit: ASUS have stopped putting the beep codes in their manuals for some reason so I don’t know where one is expected to find this information out. It was in my manual but that’s a much older model.
Yeah, more likely. You mention ‘chinese’ and that threw a red flag. Anything from there, particularly when it comes to electronics and computer components, should always be a high concern. I mean, look at the plating of the card. You say it comes up as a GTX 1650, so why is the plating saying ‘GTX-10’? If you look up low-profile GTX 1650, you will know that NONE of them look like that.
My sibling in Satan, literally a majority of electronic components are made in China.
But quantity does not equal quality. I mean come on, this has been proven time and time again. Don’t play dumb.
But the Chinese stores are of concern. 😅
Likely an issue with the card, if you can find another dGPU or use your CPU’s on-board video you can isolate as to whether it is an issue with that card specifically.
Likely the card has bad memory or a corrupted BIOS.
If it works sometimes and others not at all, it’s probably a connection issue. Bad memory or bios would either fail every time or cause corrupted output I think?
Edit: typo
