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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 07:52:22PM -0600, 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?

I see some people reporting issues with newer Radeon RX cards on X79
boards.  Seems at least in some cases making sure to use the latest BIOS
(in some cases the latest beta BIOS) solved the problem.

What version do you have currently?

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Len Sorensen