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SOLVED: Installing video cards

beyonder2k9beyonder2k9 Posts: 117
edited June 2018 in The Commons

Currently, on my windows 7 system,  I have a 1080 and 960 installed on my system and work fine. When I install my new 1070 ti, device manager sees it but gives me error code 43. I tried unistalling but that uninstalls all drivers for all cards. Then when i revert to the old vga drivers, I can get the 1070 ti working(without an error) but the other cards are listed as standard vga cards. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks in advance!

 

UPDATE: It was a simple matter of giving the 1070 ti it's own dedicated power cord rather than share it with the 960 which it is now doing with the 1080 like it was before. .

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  • ArgleSWArgleSW Posts: 148

    I would physically remove the secondary cards and only have the primary card installed first. Download GeForce Experience. Run GeForce Experience and download the latest driver in the driver section (you will need to log in with an Nvidia account). When installing the driver, pick 'Advanced' install and tick the box that says "Perform clean install". Once you have you have the primary card working, then install the secondary card(s). Also make sure your primary video card is in the upper slot, not the bottom, Your computer is probably getting confused which card is the primary. Solve the primary card first, then add the additional ones. To be clear, do you have a 1080, a 1070, and a 960? As in 3 cards total?

  • beyonder2k9beyonder2k9 Posts: 117

    Yes three cards total.

  • Daz Jack TomalinDaz Jack Tomalin Posts: 13,813

    Yea, I'd agree with the above.. I assume you have a decent PSU as well? 

  • dragotxdragotx Posts: 1,147

    You also need to make sure your motherboard can handle that many cards.  Some of them will start shutting down PCi slots and Sata ports as the PCI channels get filled up by bigger cards.  I ran into that with my last computer, I'd been running a 1070 and 680 with no problems, but when I swapped the 680 out for a 1060 it dumped the 1070 down to x8 instead of x16 and shut off half my Sata ports.

  • beyonder2k9beyonder2k9 Posts: 117

    Thanks everyone for your help!!!

  • Daz Jack TomalinDaz Jack Tomalin Posts: 13,813

    Out of curiosity, what fixed it?

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Although fixed; DDU (display driver uninstaller) is better at performing a clean install than either Nvidia or AMD - yes seriously.

  • beyonder2k9beyonder2k9 Posts: 117

    here was the solution.

     

    UPDATE: It was a simple matter of giving the 1070 ti it's own dedicated power cord rather than share it with the 960 which it is now doing with the 1080 like it was before. .

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