I want to upgrade my graphics card to the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

[Christophhowald]

Note: The following problem was already adressed in another post (therefore I feel less alone). I copy this post, reflecting my own situation:

I want to upgrade my graphics card to the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 but once plugged in, the screen stays black on boot up. I am guessing it is a BIOS issue - I have a hp pro with BIOS V7.11

Please can you help me out - I either want to upgrade the BIOS to a more recent BIOS. What would you recommend? Or get a different graphics card for 2560x1440 resolution (which one).

PS: the original graphics card was a NIVIDIA GrForce GT-250 @ 1Gb

[TheOldMan]

The short answer to that is "No" there is not BIOS update past the 7.16 version.  In order to use the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 card a BIOS version of 8.** is needed.

On a side note - the graphics card makers did make a GT NVida 7.** version to accommodate users with a switched version that would work with the older version of BIOS.  I  have not looked for one.  I'll leave that up to you.

And on a further note - you might want to PM @BeemerBiker  He is our HP forum, also.

There are discussing a solution here post #35

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Request-HP-3300-Pro-MT-Bios-Unlock-Mod?page=4

[Christophhowald]

Thank You, dear TheOldMan !

I'll return the GT730 and the GT710 cards (also acuired before) to the seller for refund. Also I documented the problem as a comment to the product at the venors Internet site.

Thank you, have a nice weekend

Chris

[BeemerBiker]

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@TheOldMan wrote:

The short answer to that is "No" there is not BIOS update past the 7.16 version.  In order to use the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 card a BIOS version of 8.** is needed.

On a side note - the graphics card makers did make a GT NVida 7.** version to accommodate users with a switched version that would work with the older version of BIOS.  I  have not looked for one.  I'll leave that up to you.

And on a further note - you might want to PM @BeemerBiker  He is our HP forum, also.

There are discussing a solution here post #35

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Request-HP-3300-Pro-MT-Bios-Unlock-Mod?page=4

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Yea, I remember going to that forum for help and almost bricking my Pro 3400 MT.  After several tries, I did manage to mod the bios to work with newer graphics cards but later on @Paul_Tikkanen mentioned that there were 4 different motherboards that could have their bios upgraded.  Paul referenced this page and as far as I can tell the 3300 and 3400 both use the cupertino2

https://archive.org/details/gpu-fix-for-hp-ipisb-ch2-modified-bios-image

I do not know who put the above document together or who did the original mod, but I have been advised that each of the Pegatron motherboard work with the newer NVidia boards after upgrading to the mod'ed bios.   Cards like GTX-1070 and higher need a larger power supply but worked fine in my 3400 MT

[Christophhowald]

Dear BeamerBiker,

thank you for your input on this issue. I'm not experienced enough to touch details on the BIOS. Therfore I try to find a graphic card with another processor and architecture. I'm therefore waiting for answer from my wendor.

Since I don't want to change my PC yet, I may also just stay with the new screen (2560x1440) and accept something less than the best quality of the display.

Kind regards from Lake Geneva / Switzerland