NCC10281982B Posted January 17, 2015 Posted January 17, 2015 Greetings, recently when I tried installing a 9800GT in PCI-e slot 1 I would not get video output. I have a GTX 660 in slot 2. I tried changing the DVI connection to different ports with no results. The reason I must have the cards installed is because the GTX 660 will not physically fit in slot 1 due to the motherboards CPU heatsink location. Is there anything I can do to remedy this? I'd like to have the 9800 for a little extra F@H power. CPUZ attached http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04136962 JEFF-PC.txt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_cow Posted January 17, 2015 Posted January 17, 2015 have you tried the 660 alone in the second slot ? Also the 9800gt isnt worth folding anymore. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC10281982B Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Yes, everything is fine with the 660 alone in slot 2. Damn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC10281982B Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Suggestions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_cow Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Drivers? I feel like the driver support would be long gone for the 9000 series when the 600 came out. Every few generation they leave support for older cads. Do you have the very last supported drivers for the 9800 installed? When the 660 is in alone, I bet it's switching over to newer drivers...just a theory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 I'll be honest, if you only want for the 9800 is to fold then you're wasting your time really. it'll barely turn out WUs these days and make a fair bit of heat and power consumption for so little. As for the actual problem I would guess either a bios setting/even jumper out of wack. But then again there are MANY cases in history of certain video cards just not being liked by server/workstation chipsets and that COULD be the issue in the exact combo. Long story short the rules of what "should" work and what actually does in a workstation/server board ESPECIALLY from an OEM like Dell/HP are two very different things many times as annoying as it is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_cow Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 looks like i'm wrong nvidia supports the 9800GT until just last summer with 340.52 so the 600s have been out for a while. I'm just going to suggest you ditch that old card as it's pointless to fold now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPETEZx Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 I think the issue here is simple. The motherboard will always use the GPU in Slot#1 as its primary display. No amount of driver tweaking will change that. You may have an option in the BIOS to chose which GPU to use, but normally this option only allows you to decide between on-board and PCIe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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