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Thread ID: 147757	2019-04-05 07:16:00	Weirdness with Graphics	piroska (17583)	Press F1

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1459759	2019-04-05 07:16:00	OK, recently I swapped out my brothers GPU. See previous thread if you care. Anyway today I put my card in his PC, worked just fine. It's huge (upgraded PSU and case) and better spec. I put the spare (which I had tried in his, with previous thread results) in mine. It works. Perfectly. Why? We have the same O/S, same version too. Same kernel. His motherboard is actually a tiny bit older than mine, we both have 16GB DDR3, both have ASUS MBs. Not that that should have anything to do with it. He can run my GTX680 but not an HD5850? Yes one is Nvidia and one is AMD but the old one he had was AMD too. Which worked. But I can run all of them. Drivers? well no, we are both using the Linux default, not Nvidia or AMD. Beats me...anyway I have bought him RX 480 (on it's way) so I can get my card back.	piroska (17583)
1459760	2019-04-05 21:17:00	I will state right mow i am not great on hardware, however the last time i tried to put a card in to my system i had to update the BIOS on the motherboard If his motherboard is older, might it have an older version of the bios?	Morgenmuffel (187)
1459761	2019-04-05 21:17:00	Reminds me of a problem I had a very long time ago with a ti4200, had all sorts of problems with my gaming rig at the time after replacing a dead graphics card with a cheap second hand ti4200. Nothing I did would make the machine stable, games would crash, graphics would glitch out, and I could never prove the cause. When I eventually built a new machine and had parts to experiment with I discovered the problems only happened with that graphics card and that motherboard when used together. Swap them with other parts and both worked perfectly, put them together and problems started immediately. Never did figure out which one was to blame.	dugimodo (138)
1459762	2019-04-05 22:06:00	If his motherboard is older, might it have an older version of the bios? Mines the older board. But hmmm...perhaps. He has a newer card in it now though, which is fine, The older card caused the issue. Bizarre I hate weirdness like that	piroska (17583)
1459763	2019-04-12 06:45:00	Annoyingly, some hardware is just not compatible no matter what you do. It's probably a BIOS bug in the card or the motherboard, which nobody will ever bother fixing.	Agent_24 (57)
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