Dell Precision 670 and a Quadro 5000 Card

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joevelvet

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Hello,

I purchased a used Quadro 5000 card for a decent price, and I installed the card in a Precision 670 system.

Everything appeared to be working fine. I removed the older video driver completely from the system, I installed the card in the PCIe x16 expansion slot, I loaded the latest driver from Nvidia, and I rebooted the computer. However, the computer stalled for about two minutes at the windows logo screen and programs are very slow and laggy. For example, Photoshop is so slow and laggy that trying to draw a stroke on a small document takes a few seconds.

The minimum system requirements for the Quadro 5000 card include a 450 watt power supply and a PCIe x16 expansion slot. The Precision 670 seems to be capable of handling the card.

Is there any way to get the Quadro 5000 card to work on this system? Are there some bio settings that have to be adjusted to get it to work?

Thank you for any help,

Joe
 
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joevelvet

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Hello,

I finally found the issues that caused the problems with the Quadro 5000, and I just wanted to clarify what I did to get the Quadro 5000 card to work on my system, so if other people have problems, this should help them.

First, I formatted my hard drive, and I freshly installed all the drivers including the Quadro 5000 driver from Nvidia. There are programs out there like Driver Sweeper that can do the same things without formatting.

Fresh drivers fixed some of the issues, but using any program that directly accesses the card like Photoshop resulted in lag and slowing down.

Finally, go into the computer system bios, go to Onboard Devices, and turn all devices off except critical ones like the USB Controller. I have not completely pinpointed the exact device that caused the hang-up, so this might require some experimentation.

I hope this helps anyone that could not get the Quadro 5000 card to work on their system.


Take care,
 
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My card was overheating, sorted that out with a fan control program, ran it higher than the recommended, precisions can get hot real quickly and there is no real air flow to the system board, it all goes to the cpu's and memory

The NVidia experience, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.61 mess up my computer badly with untold bsod's and all sorts of jiggery pokery, uninstall NVidia experience, if you need gaming sets, then get them off the game or NVidia site, until they sort the experience bugs out stay clear of it, also, get the NVIDIA Physx for 3DS Max off the autodesk site, do not know why but the NVidia's in house PhysX plugs in wrong on some cards.

also check to see what drivers you are using and I would suggest getting the whql, not beta, its called beta cause its still in test mode which is no good if it buggers your card up figuring out problems.

there are a lot of other things to look at, in the bios, check the settings are right, even if it means contacting the mobo manufacturer, there might be a fix.

Check adobe for reasons to why its kicking your card to death, I know for a fact the card should be helping not slowing any editing down, that's very strange
 
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