[SOLVED] Bought a 1050ti from ebay and it has yellow warning in device manager

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So I bought a 1050 ti with no brand name on it. It's got Chinese symbols on the fans anyway when I put it in and boot up computer it doesn't show the device in manage and won't go above 1280 x 1024 so I download the Nvidia geforce thing and I do express install and it automatically detects my driver and downloads it for me. Then I go into Device manager and it recognizes a 1050 ti but now it has a yellow warning (!) next to it so I don't know what to do at this point... I tried downloading MSI afterburner to see if it would recognize it and what it is clocking it at but it doesn't even seem to think I have a GPU connected... Not sure what to do here, please help.

Windows 10 64 bit
ryzen 7 1700x
2 x 8 gb DDR4 @ 3200 mhz
Asus B350-F MOBO
EVGA 700B 80+ Bronze PSU

 

[Phaaze88]

Download and run Gpu-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
What does it show for the gpu ID?

 

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I screen shot it here go to gyazo(dot)com/6b48c0662b713a8a0a7c6fce692d83c9
Windows yellow warning is error code (43) btw

 

[adfggffffffddffd]

Download and run Gpu-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
What does it show for the gpu ID?

Hold on a sec, I just updated GPU-Z and it now shows this gyazo(dot)com/d4b5c9eaca3ace5b2dcd50207ffcd83d
It says (FAKE)Nvidia GPU

 

[Phaaze88]

Hold on a sec, I just updated GPU-Z and it now shows this gyazo(dot)com/d4b5c9eaca3ace5b2dcd50207ffcd83d
It says (FAKE)Nvidia GPU

Well, you know what to do... get your money back.
The 2nd hand market is notorious for having fake GTX 750, 750TI, 1050, and 1050Tis in the mix.

 

[boju]

Yeah all the above.

Article on Gpuz being able to sniff out fake cards.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-z-update-detect-fake-nvidia-graphics-cards,37934.html

It's a shame, so many knockoffs about. Sellers from China play a big part in this.

 

[DSzymborski]

Yup, total scam. Looks like an altered GTS 450 from the specs, though would have to actually see the GPU to get a better idea.

 

[adfggffffffddffd]

Yeah all the above.

Article on Gpuz being able to sniff out fake cards.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-z-update-detect-fake-nvidia-graphics-cards,37934.html

It's a shame, so many knockoffs about. Sellers from China play a big part in this.

That's where mine shipped from... it has chinese symbols on the fans and when I tried loading a game it was prompting me in Chinese. Anyway after I took the thing out and put in my old card I tried watching a show just a minute ago and I got a window pop up in front of me and I saw some chinese writing and the website said "unsecured" in the top left in what I think was chrome. I'm not sure though because I closed it out afap when I saw that. Not sure which browser it was though because I checked my search history for chrome and mozilla and neither of them showed anything.......

 

[DSzymborski]

Did this monstrosity also come with a disk of drivers? If so, you may have a malware/virus problem now, too. I'd check and if you can't find anything, for security reasons, I'd recommend a full wipe-and-reinstall of your operating system drive.

 

[boju]

Was about to say the same thing. I second DSzymborski.

Try Malwarebytes

 

[ohio_buckeye]

File a claim with eBay tell them your item was not as described. The fact they didn't sell you an actual 1050ti should be plenty. When you order a new card, an rx 570 or RX 580 would be faster but still should be reasonably priced. Though you may need to upgrade your power supply.