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.

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    55 minutes ago

    Look into Nvidia MATS/MODS if you want to test the card and its memory. It’s Nvidia’s own internal diagnostic software.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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