Question Problem after upgrading GPU to an Nvidia 1060 ?

[LIMERICKGUY]

Have an Alienware X51 R1 with 330 power brick with intel i5 with 16 gb ram , 1 tb ssd drive , windows 11 home with nvidia 1050ti 4gb gpu. I was looking for extra gpu vram so I installed nvidia 1060 6gb gpu.
However, I have issue where windows 11 device manager doesn't see the 1060 gpu and nvidia control panel doesn't see it either.

I reseated it 6 times. made no difference, i plugged into the two different 6-pin connectors to gpu, made no difference. i unplugged the 6-pin connector to see if pc would say something and in dos boot up , it said to plug in power cable to nvidia gpu card so dos see it but not windows.

I have the lastes bios A14. only difference between the 1050 ti gpu and the 1060 gpu is the 1050 ti doesn't require or has 6 pin power connector where as the 1060 needs 6 pin power connector and has 6gb ram where 1060ti has 4 bg ram. any ideas or has only came across this and ow did you fix. would getting R2 D85RT power board make any difference . cheers

 

[MCH170]

Have you tried installing drivers for the 1060?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Did you use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually installing the latest GPU driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator?

alienware x51 r1 with 330 power brick
How old is the PSU in your prebuilt? Scratch that, does the power board in your prebuilt have a fan atop of it?

Further reading;
https://www.dell.com/community/en/c...possible-video-cards/647f89f2f4ccf8a8de9a78a4

Moved thread from Components section to Prebuilts and Enterprise section

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

Have you tried installing drivers for the 1060?

Didn't as i have nvidia 1050ti gpu card installed before with lastest nvidia software, should i uninstall the nvidia software with drivers and nvidia experience . when i took out the nvidia 1060 gpu and put back the 1050 ti gpu, just worked. only difference between the 2 is 1050 ti is 4gb ram with no 6 pin power connector and the gpu I'm trying to install 1060 gpu with 6gb ram with 6 pin power connector. seems bios see it but windows 11 and nvidia software doesn't see it

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Did you use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually installing the latest GPU driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator?

alienware x51 r1 with 330 power brick
How old is the PSU in your prebuilt? Scratch that, does the power board in your prebuilt have a fan atop of it?

Further reading;
https://www.dell.com/community/en/c...possible-video-cards/647f89f2f4ccf8a8de9a78a4

Moved thread from Components section to Prebuilts and Enterprise section

PSU is 5 years or less old
had to google DDU, i try it and uninstall nvidia software which includes drivers and experience software .
don't think power board has small fan on top, i check when i'm home from work, is power board mounted on motherboard or to holder of gru

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

My Alienware X51 R1 doesn't have D85RT power board, would that make a difference and where would it be on motherboard or on tray that holds the gpu?

 

[MCH170]

with 6 pin power connector

I don't think the power connector is the problem here.

only difference between the 2 is 1050 ti is 4gb ram with no 6 pin power connector and the gpu I'm trying to install 1060 gpu with 6gb ram

Those are 2 different models so you will have to reinstall the drivers for it to work as it should. The best option will be to do as @Lutfij said and use DDU, although in this case I would say its optional.

You should put the new GPU in your system, boot into Windows, download the drivers, and run the installer. Restart after the installation is done and you should be good to go.

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

I don't think the power connector is the problem here.


Those are 2 different models so you will have to reinstall the drivers for it to work as it should. The best option will be to do as @Lutfij said and use DDU, although in this case I would say its optional.

You should put the new GPU in your system, boot into Windows, download the drivers, and run the installer. Restart after the installation is done and you should be good to go.

cheers for that, I try it later when I got home from work, hopefully it will work.
question. my x51 r1 doesn't have D85RT power board with fan, does this matter.

 

[MCH170]

cheers for that, I try it later when I got home from work, hopefully it will work.
question. my x51 r1 doesn't have D85RT power board with fan, does this matter.

I am not sure about that, my guess is that if your computer has a 6 pin connector you should be ok.

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

I am not sure about that, my guess is that if your computer has a 6 pin connector you should be ok.

It has 2 6 pin connectors marked 1 and 2. I uninstall the nvidia drivers and download fresh and reinstall after reboot with new gpu in. thanks

 

[melody1]

corrupted drivers, OS switching to integrated GPU or driver update issues. Updating and configuring GPU drivers can resolve detection problems.

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

corrupted drivers, OS switching to integrated GPU or driver update issues. Updating and configuring GPU drivers can resolve detection problems

Nvidia software was new install few months ago as upgraded from windows 10 to 11. I'm going to try to uninstall Nvidia software and reinstall with DDU,see if it works.i check bios .see if I can see new card there .

 

[Lolomid]

Reinstall NVIDIA Drivers: Download the latest NVIDIA drivers for your geforce NVIDIA website.
Install the drivers in Safe Mode. Make sure to select the Custom installation option and choose Clean Installation to remove any previous driver remnants.

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

Reinstall NVIDIA Drivers: Download the latest NVIDIA drivers for your geforce NVIDIA website.
Install the drivers in Safe Mode. Make sure to select the Custom installation option and choose Clean Installation to remove any previous driver remnants.

You mean boot up windows in safe mode and remove and reinstall nvidia drivers in custom install.have windows 11 so should be same option in safe mode

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

Thanks all. Couldn't get unsafe mode as for some reason had no keyboard active during boot up,only after boot up.so used DUU twice and installed Nvidia software under administrator and worked. Thanks again for your help great help 👍👍👍👍

 

[Misgar]

for some reason had no keyboard active during boot up,only after boot up

Try an old fashioned PS/2 keyboard. I've got several machines where I can't get into the BIOS with a USB keyboard. The BIOS recognises the PS/2 keyboard faster, but by the time it sets up the USB keyboard, the BIOS has stopped responding to me pressing the Del key, or F2, etc.

 

[LIMERICKGUY]

Try an old fashioned PS/2 keyboard. I've got several machines where I can't get into the BIOS with a USB keyboard. The BIOS recognises the PS/2 keyboard faster, but by the time it sets up the USB keyboard, the BIOS has stopped responding to me pressing the Del key, or F2, etc.

Cheers.don't have any PS2 keyboard. I see if I can get one for this to get into bios etc. think there adapter to convert from usb to PS2 but might not be as good. Thanks for tip.