Hello all.  So I have what may seem like an odd issue.  Recently, my server's video card went bad, so I figured I would replace it with the video card mentioned in the subject of this post.  Anyhow, I have been running into some.....issues.....trying to get the drivers installed.  When I try to install the drivers on a server 2016 os, I get an error stating that the installation can't continue because the os is incompatible.  However, when I try installing the drivers on a server 2019 os, the install goes through successfully, but I can't use that particular os because I run into several other issues.  So, my question is, is the gpu mentioned in the subject compatible with server operating systems?  If so, why am I having such a hard time installing it on my server 2016 box?  Is there some kind of feature that needs to be enabled?  Any info would really be appreciated.  Thanks.

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Hello all.  So I have what may seem like an odd issue.
Recently, my server's video card went bad, so I figured I would replace it with the video card mentioned in the subject of this post.
Anyhow, I have been running into some.....issues.....trying to get the drivers installed.
When I try to install the drivers on a server 2016 os, I get an error stating that the installation can't continue because the os is incompatible.
However, when I try installing the drivers on a server 2019 os, the install goes through successfully, but I can't use that particular os because I run into several other issues.
So, my question is, is the gpu mentioned in the subject compatible with server operating systems?
If so, why am I having such a hard time installing it on my server 2016 box? 
Is there some kind of feature that needs to be enabled?  Any info would really be appreciated. 
Thanks.

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Did You Preset Server 2019 to Support Desktop?
That is Install With Desktop Support?
 
Server 2016 is somewhat the same.
What Servers are running or Motherboard/CPU and is the Bios Current?
 
I use the two cards below on my Servers
 Has Full size I/O Plate and only runs at x4.

Thank you for your reply.  Here is the weird thing.  I run into this issue when I attempt to install the drivers on windows server 2016, yes.  But, when I try to install the video card drivers on windows server 2019, it works!!  However, there are some other issues I am running into regarding using server 2019, so I would prefer to use server 2016, as the only issue I am running into when using it is this video card driver installation.  Furthermore, even stranger is the fact that I had a much, much older video card installed in the server
(when it was running 2016) until it broke a couple of days ago. Replaced it and ran into these issues immediately.  And both operating systems had desktop support enabled.  BIOS is current.  Additional info below