Multiple Graphics Cards in Windows 10 driving me nuts

Francois166

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I have two graphics cards with 4 screens in my PC: a NVIDIA GeForce 210 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 610. I've been running Windows 7 with both of these cards without any issues. About two weeks ago, I've started having problems with the HDMI ports, no signal was sending from either card's HDMI which is a big problem for me. So I looked on this site and others for possible solutions, tried a bunch of things but got nowhere. So I figured it might be an OS problem. I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 for a while now, and now I had an excuse.

So I upgraded the OS, downloaded the drivers and only the GeForce 610 was working. Eventually, I got both cards running by rolling back the driver for the 610 in device manager. But now Windows keeps on updating the driver. Every day I have to go through the same procedure. I've gone into settings and checked "Defer Updates" but still, every day the same story.

And to put the cherry on top, the HDMI ports still aren't active! If anyone has any type of solution, please let me know, even if it's just for a part of the problem.

Thanks!
 
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Honestly I'm not genius nor close to it. But that cards are fairly old and with windows 10 being fairly new and already bring many problems of it's own then the cards aren't helping that along. Now the only thing I could try and suggest it, making sure windows driver framework is off, and auto windows update as well. This will cause you to manually checking for certain update but will prevent windows from installing the new drivers. Also maybe delete all drivers for both cards then fresh install the brand new ones.

typosl1998

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Honestly I'm not genius nor close to it. But that cards are fairly old and with windows 10 being fairly new and already bring many problems of it's own then the cards aren't helping that along. Now the only thing I could try and suggest it, making sure windows driver framework is off, and auto windows update as well. This will cause you to manually checking for certain update but will prevent windows from installing the new drivers. Also maybe delete all drivers for both cards then fresh install the brand new ones.
 
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