Nvidia GT 610 issues with installation in an Acer Veriton m490g

frogulox

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as above, i am trying to install a GT 610 into a system only to run into frustration.

the physical installation is fine, the system boots up, but display is at about 90% of total monitor real. estate and even simple games fail to load or stagger terribly.
obviously, a driver update is required, but when i do that the display cuts out and the monitor drops to no signal mode without returning.

when the system is restarted, display returns for boot but as soon as it hits windows the display cuts out again. after a few reboots, the windows recovery options also display, but wont load into windows proper.

things get more particular. the driver installation for geforce experience downloads and runs everything fine, and only on restart does the display fail.
downloading the driver manually and installing tells me that i dont have compatible hardware and cannot continue. reading up on this i have tried modification to the .INF filles to force the installation, but this is when i get the display cut out mid installation. i have waited a full 30 minutes for it to magically return in case it was just taking its time.

i have made sure i have the most current chipset drivers and whatnot, the card still works in another system.
i am at a total loss and have no idea how to proceed. please please, if you can - any help would be appreciated.

its the mobo and chip out of an ACER Veriton m490G (intel h57 chipset) with windows 10 on a samsung SSD, plenty of ram and an Nvidia Geforce GT 610
and a 500w PSU that is perfectly fine.
probably sounds bit frankenstein, but i just need it to run.
 

frogulox

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Just dug out an old 7800gt (and got new driver package) and same issue on install attempt:

NVIDIA installer cannot continue

Yadda yadda, no compatible hardware.
Problem with the age of the card being i dunno it would install anyway.

Could i have a pcie issue? Chipset driver issue or something?
 

kookie3010

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that card is quiet old though:D.if you manage to find a slightly newer card much better.but since the gt 610 works on other system it could be a problem with your motherboard.have u check and see if its detected in device manager?
 

frogulox

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Super old for sure. but the exact same issues are presenting.

I tried a different monitor just in case, but found no joy there.

I was able to complete a driver installation in safe mode, but still with the same system dropp upon regular boot.

In safe mode I'm able to see the little yellow triangle warning on the 610 in the device manager, but i dont know what the issue is - especially after a (finally) successful driver package installation in safe mode.
 

kookie3010

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have u tried a clean installation?unless we can get a newer gpu to test on this system then its probably the board itself have issue.
 

frogulox

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If i had a newer card i probably would need to worry about the 610 :p haha

I havent tried a new installation, this basically *was* a new installation. Hoping im missing some stupid detail and i can move on.
 

kookie3010

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lol.yeah.but judging by the problem here i cant help but feeling the board have issue since u cant get both the old 7800 and gt610 to work.
 

frogulox

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Im inclined to agree :/

It's odd though, because the cards will boot into windows prior to a driver attempt. And even afterwards it still displays in the recovery boot and whatnot.

It could absolutely be the board, but it seems like an undiscovered driver conflict or wrong chipset driver or something.
Im struggling.
 

kookie3010

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i remember having sort of similar issue but it was a bad card.but since the card here works could be something else.