Hi everyone. This is driving me crazy. I have the i9 10900k which has the internal gpu. I am trying to get my system to use my EVGA gpu but for whatever reason it will only show a picture from the DP port on the motherboard. Anyone have any ideas? I am using my old EVGA classified gtx590 which (while it is pci 2.0) be compatible with the pci 3.0 slot. I was waiting for the new Nvidia 3000 series to hit before upgrading. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks so much. That was the issue but of course also uncovered that my GPU has failed too.

rzande1
Hi everyone. This is driving me crazy. I have the i9 10900k which has the internal gpu. I am trying to get my system to use my EVGA gpu but for whatever reason it will only show a picture from the DP port on the motherboard. Anyone have any ideas? I am using my old EVGA classified gtx590 which (while it is pci 2.0) be compatible with the pci 3.0 slot. I was waiting for the new Nvidia 3000 series to hit before upgrading. Does anyone have any ideas?

rzande1
Thanks so much. That was the issue but of course also uncovered that my GPU has failed too.

How do you know that the GPU failed?
It is not compatible with Z490.  
Z490 requires a GPU with a UEFI compatible BIOS.  I don't think GPUs from 2011 had those.  Maybe setting the BIOS to legacy mode might work?

Hi there

I was just using a single GPU so I didn’t have any SLI bridge setup. I was able to change things so that the the GPU was the display provider and it showed the picture during the bios boot. The odd thing is that it basically gave me the same issue as on my old build. The bios would display fine but once the system tries to start loading windows it all goes wrong. On my old system and new system, it would continually fail to load windows, reboot itself, and go into the windows didn’t start right repair screen. Strange thing is that it did this same thing on my old computer which was running the same hardware for 10 years without an issue. The moment I pulled the GPU out (something I couldn’t do in my old setup since my new processor has built in intel graphics) and reset it back to the processor intel graphics also being available as the GPU, windows boots fine. Even before when i initially built this pc and it had the GPU attached but not driving it, the GPU gave windows issues with drivers and giving a failure message when I tried to install the chipset software which all went away when I pulled the GPU out. As far as I can tell, the GPU is somehow stopping windows from loading in two systems which leads me to believe it has failed.

Ok maybe we are talking in circles here. I have one physical gtx590 Evga classified card. It is the single card that I have been using for the past 10 years or so. I don’t have two physical cards. There might be multiple processors within that single card but still just one card.

rzande1
Ok maybe we are talking in circles here. I have one physical gtx590 Evga classified card. It is the single card that I have been using for the past 10 years or so. I don’t have two physical cards. There might be multiple processors within that single card but still just one card.

Here is a picture of your card without the Fan Shroud and Heatsink.

 
It has 2 GPU's on it and it's ran in SLI internally on the GPU via the PLX switch. You have a very rare card, but also an outdated one. It's very possible you need to take it apart, reapply thermal paste and any thermal pads. The GTX 500 series stuff was great for it's time but not really built to last, they were plagued with heat issues that caused degradation to the GPU where you run into a vicious cycle of needing more voltage to the GPU to keep it going at stock speeds. If you just need something to hold you over until the next generation, I would recommend a GTX 16 series card.

Correction, bridge chip on 590 (and previous cards like GTX 295, 7900 GX2, 7950 GX2) is somewhat quirky and problematic Gen2 NV NF200 bridge and not more standard PLX. It's operation was not without issue even with current motherboards of that era. It's bit much to expect designers of modern HW spend time to support 11 year old bridge-connected VGA, to be fair.

TiN_EE
Correction, bridge chip on 590 (and previous cards like GTX 295, 7900 GX2, 7950 GX2) is somewhat quirky and problematic Gen2 NV NF200 bridge and not more standard PLX. It's operation was not without issue even with current motherboards of that era. It's bit much to expect designers of modern HW spend time to support 11 year old bridge-connected VGA, to be fair.

Ah yes! I forgot about the NF200. PLX wasn't until the GTX 690 right?