[SOLVED] Gtx 1050 low pro

[Bill3779]

Hi guys,

So I have had this HP Pavilion 570-p017c for some years now and the gpu fan started going out. So I figured might as well upgrade it now. Bought a Gigabyte GeForce 1050ti low profile unit after reading some reviews. Replaced the canned psu with a 500watt evga unit and plopped the vid card in. Now for the life of me the computer well not even detect it. The fan kicks on and everything but that is as far as it goes.

Tryed over on the hp forums but it was no help there.

Thanks in advance

 

[Bill3779]

If you can't get the Nvidia driver installer, downloaded from Nvidia.com, to work or for the card to be recognized, it's possible you bought a fake 1050 or non functioning card.

Yeah I think that is going to be my conclusion....have set up a return to Amazon and hopfully I can recover some of my money. I don't think it's a fake card..it looks exactly like all the other ones I see in pictures. None functioning is a diffrent story. Either way..i am done messing with it. I well just have to tolerate this fan in this stock card until I build my own system.

Thank you guys for all your help

 

[Darkbreeze]

Amazon does not test, anything. They either take a loss, sell it as open box or is returned to the third party seller they were moving the merchandise FOR, which is often the case. Then, that seller often ships that same item right back out again either as new or in some cases they might call it open box or even refurbished/recertified, even though it isn't. Amazon doesn't have time to vet every sale, and sellers, obviously, are not all honest or even have the ability to afford testing facilities so while they might honestly not even know there is a problem with a device in some cases. Still their fault, but there it is.

I've received obviously broken hardware from them before, that was repacked into an undamaged box, so I know it had to have been damaged on a previous shipping effort or at the warehouse before packaging, or wherever it came from.

And that's without factoring in the huge numbers of fake cards being sold on Ebay and Amazon, like Third eye mentioned.

I'd just get a refund, and then buy another card. It's unlikely you'd have the same result twice unless the problem was something else in your system and then at least you'd know. First thing I'd probably do is try to take and test your card with the "faulty" fan and see if it has a faulty fan while being used in another system. It may just be an issue with a faulty motherboard.

 

[Bill3779]

The fan issue with the other card seems to have lessened now that I have blown the and driver completely out and reinstalled it to just the HP provided driver. It did seem like it had gotten worse on my last update but I thought it wa just me. Seems like it revs to high at times causing it to grind almost. Does that make since?

Anyhow...i found the exact upgrade to mine over at newegg for just under 100.00. So I well probably go that route after this return is worked out. I am not looking for anything fancy...but an upgrade from 2gig to 4gig would be nice, and this card at newegg is HP certified so it should work perfectly. Like I said...i plan to build my own again this coming year and so I don't want to dump a bunch into this one.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Makes total sense to me.