an AMD and an Nivdea card is in my PC, for your own interest only

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ltMason1

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I have two video cards in my Windows PC.

The reason I have 2 cards is because in order for the more powerful Nvidia card to work it needs the AMD card to be connected also. Its really odd.


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I used to use just the AMD card and then a friend gave me his old card, an Nvidia card, which is was better than my current card. I un-installed all drivers for my old card and inserted the new Nvidia card. But my pc would fail to launch in windows. I had nothing coming up on my display. And I heard some beeps which I figured out meant video/graphics problem. I then interested my AMD card in the bottom expansion slot in my motherboard which meant I could boot up into windows now. And my graphics driver in windows is the Nvidia card.

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However I cannot see the bios, the moment when windows starts to launch is when my display turns on. In order for me to see the bios I have to move the HDMI cable from the Nivdia card to the AMD card.


It looks like a have AMD and Nivdia working together in harmany in my PC.

So to sum up, I use my AMD card to get into windows. And my Nvidia card for everything else, eg.. playing games

Can anyone give me some feedback on this, Its odd right?
 
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Iankiller99

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Your explanation seem very odd and it's hard to get what exactly is happening but do realize that only one card can be used at a time, Are you telling me you have to plug your monitor into a different gpu just to see your pc boot up? And do you switch the cable when you start to game??
 
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ltMason1

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In order for me to see the boot up screen I have to plug my monitor into the AMD card.
But this is a laborious job and I dont bother. As a result I never see my boot up screen as I have my monitor plugged into my nvidea card 99% of the time. I only ever plug my monitor into my amd card if I want to get into the bios.


If I unplugged my nvidia card from the motherboard and use my AMD card only then everything works fine. But I'd have to accept not being able to play some games because its a weaker card.

If I unplugged my AMD card from the motherboard and tried using my Nvidia card only. Then my machine would crash on boot up and a series of beeps would occur which means video problem. Nothing would be displayed on screen.

I believe there is something wrong hardware fault maybe with the nvidea card or that nividea card is not compatible with my motherboard during boot up.

What I believe happens... When I start my machine the motherboard reads the AMD card (even though I plugged it into the bottom PCI slot) And once Windows starts the windows environment takes over and reads the Nvidea card as its primary driver. (as I have un-installed all AMD drivers)

So.... my AMD cards' solo job is to boot up my machine and get me into windows. And once into windows my Nvidea card takes over handling everything else.
I have two rival gpu's working together for my benefit. Its a pretty unique case I think.

My setup :
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Iankiller99

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Do you have any money for just upgrading your gpu in general, I cant imagine the 295 lets you play many games very well anyways. I mean for around 200$ you can get a great card with better features that will allow max settings at 1080p
 
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