help- cant get known working card to work on another computer

[keakar]

I took my gtx 660 out of my computer and put it into another one but it will not recognize it.

this card only uses on 6 pin pcie power plug and irt is plugged in and showing green "status good" light.

device manager only shows the onboard grafics and not the NVidia pci-e card

under systems devices, the pci port, bridge and complex all show as working properly

I tried installing NVidia driver 353.06 but it wont install because it says hardware is not found on system.

this is the details on the intel desktop board dh55tc - http://ark.intel.com/products/42408/Intel-Desktop-Board-DH55TC

bios version tcibx10h.86a.0037.2010.0614.1712
intel i5 650 @3.50ghz
8gb ddr3 ram
running windows 10

I have a feeling I have a setting wrong or something in bios but I did set the primary video to ext pci-e slot yet 2 different monitors show no signal output from it

I put the card back into the computer shown in my specs and its working fine so what am I doing wrong here?

 

[dorsetknob]

Bios set to PCIx ? then saved before exiting bios

 

[keakar]

ok, never mind, I got it working now

damn windows 10 shit, it needs to be online to install drivers for things. well duh, but im talking the most "basic" of shit like generic pci-e drivers

i had this computer running for a few weeks with just onboard video and it wasn't connected to internet when I was trying to install the video card.

obviously it doesn't come with a set of standard drivers for things like win 7 and previous OS have

once I connected to internet I was able to manually tell it to install generic pci-e drivers which got the pci-e slot to be recognized finally

 

[dorsetknob]

Sarcasm time

"" Another Windows 10 Success Story ""
Sorry for the Sarcasm

 

[NdMk2o1o]

ok, never mind, I got it working now

damn windows 10 shit, it needs to be online to install drivers for things. well duh, but im talking the most "basic" of shit like generic pci-e drivers

i had this computer running for a few weeks with just onboard video and it wasn't connected to internet when I was trying to install the video card.

obviously it doesn't come with a set of standard drivers for things like win 7 and previous OS have

once I connected to internet I was able to manually tell it to install generic pci-e drivers which got the pci-e slot to be recognized finally

Not sure if I follow you, so you're saying that generic PCI-E drivers weren't instlled until you connected to the internet, that's what chipset drivers are for and doesn't sound like a Win 10 issue unless I'm missing something? Did you have all the relevant chipset drivers installed?

 

[newtekie1]

Sounds like the card just needed to be reseated. Drivers don't need to be installed for a picture to come up on the screen, that is why the BIOS and Post can be displayed without drivers.

 

[keakar]

chipset drivers were installed but they were all win 7 drivers installed on win 7 OS before the win 10 upgrade was done and after reseating the video card again for like the 5th time, finally something did show up in the system hardware section and it showed "generic pci drivers cannot be installed because of internet connection error"

all I can imagine is "maybe" the driver wasn't win 10 compatible or it just installed drivers for "detected" hardware and the computer didn't have anything in the pci-e slot when it was set up a couple weeks ago

these are huge cards (almost hitting the hard drive lol, so maybe it was a dirty contact thing because I did reseat the card just for the hell of it and that finally brought up the "generic pci drivers cannot be installed because of internet connection error" message in the system hardware section

I was told these intel 55 series boards have little quirks to deal with unlike other boards but not sure if that's part of it.

 

[Caring1]

It sounds like you haven't installed the chip set drivers, only installed Windows.

 

[cdawall]

Sounds like a combo of issues. You didn't put windows 10 drivers on it and you didn't seat the card right