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HP Pavilion HPE h8qe Series
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I should have plenty of power by my bios is legacy (old) from 2012. Still no luck.

 

New graphics card:

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 128-Bit HDMI/DP/DVI 4GB GDRR6 HDCP Support DirectX 12 VR Ready OC Graphics Card (GTX 1650 D6 Ventus XS OC)

 

Original system:

HP Pavilion HPE h8qe Series
• 3GB DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 [DVI, HDMI, VGA]
• 600W Power supply

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Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

 

A HPE series PC has an older legacy BIOS. You know this.

 

The BIOS can't be upgraded to a UEFI BIOS needed to run newer graphics cards.

 

The best you can do is the 600 series Nvidia graphics cards.

 

Regards

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