[GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

[Nicholas Krause]

On 12/4/19 8:52 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I had a system built in Jan 2012 which included an Asus P9X79 mobo and
> 3 Geforce 570 video cards where I've been running a variant of Debian,
> usually testing, ever since. I ran using 2 of those cards utilizing
> first fully proprietary drivers and then a couple years ago I shifted
> to the debian version of the same. This last spring 2 of the 3 cards
> failed and nvidia retired support for the cards in their current
> drivers so I went to using nouveau for my graphic card driver.
> I purchased a Radeon RX570 graphics card and a week ago swapped out
> Nvidia 570 card. I was unable to even get the system to post on first
> try (I had all 4 monitors plugged into the gpu). Went back to the
> Nvidia card and the system is working just fine. Tried the Radeon
> RX570 again this time only plugging in 1 monitor - - - - the gpu light
> do come on but I can't tell if much further is happening. I called my
> purchase point and they requested I send it back to them. They are now
> telling me that the card is working well on their M$ test machine.
>
> I'm not sure what to do or what I did wrong in my install attempt.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
> ---
Do you get any beeps or a post screen as that would be the first thing? If
you get beeps or a gpu light check the motherboard manual to see if the
board is giving a error. LEDS sometimes signal a post error on modern
boards.



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