Morning Community,
First time poster here. I have a rather unusual combination of problems here that requires a bit of explaining so please bear with me!
Other things I have tried are updating the BIOS which although very old, it is the latest available from the HP support site so it is as up to date as it is going to get, using older versions of the NVIDIA driver and trying to boot the machine into Windows 7 (it is a dual boot setup).
This is the first time I have ever had a compatibility issue with a PCI x16 device not talking to a system board so I would be interested to hear if anyone else has ever come up with this problem and if it can be resolved.
Anthony
First time poster here. I have a rather unusual combination of problems here that requires a bit of explaining so please bear with me!
My system is a HP XW4600 workstation which is admittedly, now very old (it still has a sticker proudly proclaiming it is built for Windows Vista)
I had opted for the second hand Quadro K4200 as it was a substantial upgrade from where I am at but still fairly old school technology so I figured it shouldn't have too much compatibility problems running in an older system but I am having issues with the system board recognising it.
but since it was a CAD workstation when new, it would have been far above your average desktop when it was new so after upgrading to an SSD running Windows 10 plus a few extra memory modules, the system still performs quite well and I still use it as a CAD workstation in my home office
. It mostly runs structural analysis software which historically normally require CPU and memory grunt which this system still performs reasonably well on but as these programs become more and more graphical, the graphics performance is starting to become an issue. The current card is an NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 so we are talking pretty old school technology here.I had opted for the second hand Quadro K4200 as it was a substantial upgrade from where I am at but still fairly old school technology so I figured it shouldn't have too much compatibility problems running in an older system but I am having issues with the system board recognising it.
When I install it on the HP workstation, it doesn't even boot to the BIOS screen but rather I get a 4 beep error warning of a graphics problem.
I have installed it on an alternative, even older system made from a dubious selection of really old parts from several computers that I use for Netflix streaming onto my TV and it works perfectly fine so the issue is not the card itself.My HP workstation has 2 PCI x16 slots on it so I currently have the FX570 and the K4200 installed so the system is booting and working normally but I can't see the K4200 in device manager. I have tried installing the K4200 driver but it refuses to install, quoting that it can't find any compatible hardware and when
I pull out the FX570 it goes back to the 4 beeps. The K4200 requires an auxiliary power connector and ironically the only thing I got from it was when that wasn't connected and it gave me an error message obviously from the card itself telling me to connect it. I also tried hot wiring it if you will whereby I connected the auxiliary power connector from an old chassis and motherboard to the graphics card to give it power without drawing it from the HP workstation power unit to test if there was an issued with the auxiliary power connector or the power required to run card (I looked up the specs and noticed it actually draws quite a bit of power) plus the system exceeds the output of my power unit but still nothing. The fan unit on the K4200 is running so it is getting at least some power from the HP workstation power unit. Other things I have tried are updating the BIOS which although very old, it is the latest available from the HP support site so it is as up to date as it is going to get, using older versions of the NVIDIA driver and trying to boot the machine into Windows 7 (it is a dual boot setup).
This is the first time I have ever had a compatibility issue with a PCI x16 device not talking to a system board so I would be interested to hear if anyone else has ever come up with this problem and if it can be resolved.
Anthony