Unable to get drivers installed on 4 of 5 cards on Windows 10

Bilonix

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So this started when I was using SMOS and I couldn't get more than 4 cards to run no matter what I did. Using the Motherboard Asus Z170-AR.
So i plugged in my old windows HDD with windows 10 and tried to update the drivers on the cards to see if they would run in windows after they popped up as "basic display adapter"
I ran the Nvidia driver installer, it did the entire system comparability check and went through the long driver install, but in the end it said it failed. https://imgur.com/a/Rjdxv
I went to look at Device Manager and i saw that now one shows up at GTX 1060 6GB but the other 4 cards are showing up under other devices as "Display" with a caution sign on it.
I tried running the driver install again and it gave me a black screen. I tried using DDU and uninstalling everything and then trying again and it still failed.
I ran EWBF Miner to see what cards where running, and it would only pick up one card. GPU 0. I closed it, and opened Device Manager again and THREE cards showed up as GTX 1060, But they had no drivers and where reporting as "not working properly needs drivers" - I currently Have 4 cards reporting as GTX 1060 but all are not working because of lack of drivers and one cards is stuck as "Display" still.
https://imgur.com/a/kTybX
Any ideas would be awesome. I just want to get more than 4 cards stable haha it seems like a huge challenge for me. Thinking about just running a bunch of Trio Rigs with only 3 cards each.
Cheers and I really appreciate any advice or tips.
 
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I'm not really experienced with having plugged 5 cards in the same PC. But if I was you, I'd definitely use only one card at a time.
Like this:
Plug in one card, install drivers.
Plug in another, install drivers.

And so on.

Hope it helps.
I'm not really experienced with having plugged 5 cards in the same PC. But if I was you, I'd definitely use only one card at a time.
Like this:
Plug in one card, install drivers.
Plug in another, install drivers.

And so on.

Hope it helps.
 
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