Nvidia 1030 keeps freezing in two PCs?

I want to rule this out before I try for an exchange. My son has an older C2D PC that I threw a 1030 into. Then I noticed that randomly during Windows boot, it would freeze. Sometimes a couple times before successfully booting to the logon screen. Sometimes it boots up on the first try. After removing parts at a time I narrowed it down to the graphics card. I decided to try the card (as well as the same boot SSD) in another C2D and noticed it had the same exact behavior - random boot-ups would freeze during the "spinning" Windows 10 screen.

I then swapped out for an older ATI 4650 and it's working perfectly - tried numerous restarts and shutdown/starts and it's working fine. So, I'm assuming it's the card, as this 2nd C2D PC has no peripherals from the old, except for the 1030 graphics card.

I have tried a fresh Win 10 OS install and it made no difference - it's definitely hardware.

Are there any known/weird issues with putting one of these newer Nvidia cards into an older PC? Just want to make sure before I return the card. Thanks.

only thing i'd say is maybe check and see if there's a bios update for the board referencing pcie 3.0 cards, only thing i can think of. but does sound like it's probably the card that's bad and it's locking up when the drivers attempt to load during boot up.

Sometimes the newer cards have trouble with non-UEFI motherboards. You should try the card in a modern PC to see if you still have the problem.

DooKey said:

Sometimes the newer cards have trouble with non-UEFI motherboards. You should try the card in a modern PC to see if you still have the problem.

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Would that cause it to have this random Behavior such as this? Once it boots up, it plays perfectly.

rpeters83 said:

Would that cause it to have this random Behavior such as this? Once it boots up, it plays perfectly.

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Yes, I believe so.

everything i've looked up says the card should work just fine without a non UEFI bios so i don't think that's the issue. if i remember correctly the 4000 series was the cards that needed a lot of those old motherboards to have a bios update to get the cards to work properly on intel chipsets.