- Oct 5, 2021
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Hi everyone,
I’m building a custom PC using older workstation hardware, and I’ve run into a major issue I can’t resolve after hours of troubleshooting. I would appreciate any help from anyone who’s dealt with legacy NVIDIA cards or Chinese X79 boards.
The problem:
I cannot get any version of the NVIDIA Quadro K600 driver to install successfully on a Windows 10 Pro x64 system. No display scaling or full desktop resolution is applied, and NVIDIA Control Panel does not appear. Windows detects the card but treats it as a generic Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. Driver installs silently fail or throw errors. Device Manager sometimes shows a yellow triangle.
Specs:
What I’ve tried:
Important notes:
My questions:
Any help would be appreciated — even if it’s just a known good driver link or confirmation that this board is the root cause. I’m happy to test any suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
I’m building a custom PC using older workstation hardware, and I’ve run into a major issue I can’t resolve after hours of troubleshooting. I would appreciate any help from anyone who’s dealt with legacy NVIDIA cards or Chinese X79 boards.
The problem:
I cannot get any version of the NVIDIA Quadro K600 driver to install successfully on a Windows 10 Pro x64 system. No display scaling or full desktop resolution is applied, and NVIDIA Control Panel does not appear. Windows detects the card but treats it as a generic Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. Driver installs silently fail or throw errors. Device Manager sometimes shows a yellow triangle.
Specs:
- GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K600 (Kepler, PCIe 2.0, single-slot workstation card)
- Motherboard: SHAOZHAOYUAN X79 (Chinese LGA 2011 board from AliExpress)
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2660v2
- RAM: 32GB DDR3 ECC
- OS: Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (fully updated)
- GPU driver tested: 472.12 WHQL (Standard), multiple older versions (441.66, 441.20, 431.86)
What I’ve tried:
- Clean install of Windows 10
- Used DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in Safe Mode
- Attempted both Standard and DCH drivers
- Multiple versions of the Quadro driver, including 472.12 WHQL (last known version with full support for Kepler)
- Windows Update does not install a working NVIDIA driver anymore (used to 2 years ago)
- Manually forcing driver install via Device Manager → Update Driver → Have Disk
- Swapped to a different PCIe slot
- Confirmed GPU works in another machine
- BIOS reset and optimized defaults
- Verified power supply is adequate
Important notes:
- I’ve had similar driver detection issues with this same X79 motherboard and an AMD FirePro W4100 in the past.
- This card did work fine in other systems, including Dell OptiPlex builds.
My questions:
- Is the issue likely caused by this Chinese X79 motherboard not handling UEFI/legacy drivers correctly for workstation GPUs?
- Does anyone have a known-working offline installer of the 472.12 Standard (not DCH) driver for the Quadro K600?
- Are there any INF modding tricks or .sys swaps that might make this work?
- Would flashing a different vBIOS on the K600 help compatibility?
- Is there a way to force Windows Update to download the correct legacy driver again?
Any help would be appreciated — even if it’s just a known good driver link or confirmation that this board is the root cause. I’m happy to test any suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
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