Bios beep Code after installing Msi 970 GTX 4G gaming

I recently replaced my 570gtx with an MSI 970 GTX 4G Gaming.
Although everything seems to be running fine and windows boots without any problems, I have noticed the occurrence of 1 beep at the mobo bios boot since installing this card. Which according the the manufacturer indicates a "BIOS ROM checksum failure - Possible MB failure". I already checked whether it could be caused by the Card being loosely fitted in the PCI slot by removing and reinserting it to no avail. The card came with the latest graphic card bios installed. I also checked my CMos settings and could find nothing wrong with it unless I'm missing something.
So the question is whether I should be worried or not?

It's an old Dell Xps 730x I bought off a friend since I liked the case and he was letting it go cheap. Pretty much everything other than the Mobo, PSU and CPU have been replaced.
Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz   41 °C
Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
Corsair Vengeance
12.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 801MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
DELL Inc. 0P270J (CPU 1)   24 °C
uses the Intel X58 chipset
Bios version 1.06
Graphics
DELL SX2210 (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (MSI)   36 °C
Storage
931GB Hitachi HDE721010SLA330 (SATA)   32 °C
931GB Hitachi HDE721010SLA330 (SATA)   32 °C
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 (SATA)   26 °C
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 (SATA)   27 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH20N SCSI CdRom Device
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
PSU
Dell 1000 Watt PSU
from what I read it produces 18 amps on each of the +12v rails.
Considering newer graphic cards require 32amps this may be the problem; however, before upgrading to the MSI card it was running on 570 GTX SLI without any occurrence of the beep at bios boot. The only difference between the old cards to the new is that I had to attach the power cable adapter included in the box for the second power cable to be attached.
P.S. my bad should have posted specs but opened the thread late in the day

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7 beeps Processor exception interrupt error, system board bad
8 beeps Display memory video card read/write failure error, replace video memory or
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11 beeps Cache memory bad
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One Short Beep No Error During Post
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