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Shidell / OpenCaldera

An open project looking to expand the (Dell) Alienware Graphics Amplifier to support Nvidia RTX 3000 and AMD RX 6000 series GPUs.

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M15 R2 and RTX 3070 #11

Closed dongngm closed 1 year ago

dongngm commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Recently I bought a Zotac rtx 3070 to put into the AGA. Sadly when I turn it on, the card does not show up in Device Manager. I have confirmed that the AGA is still working fine by swapping with an old RX 460. I've also confirmed that the card is working fine in another system before buying it. I try to run Caldera but it throws some errors. I really don't know what to do next. Could you please shed some light on it? Thanks a lot

Shidell commented 1 year ago

@dongngm Zotac GPUs are notoriously bad for compatibility with the AGA for reasons unknown, suspected as a firmware issue (on the GPU itself.) I would recommend returning the Zotac and choosing a different manufacturer.

dongngm commented 1 year ago

@Shidell thank you so much. It's indeed the incompatibility with Zotac cards. I have tried another Zotac and it didn't work either. I switched to a Gigabyte and now all is fine although having some trouble with installing drivers. After many trials and errors this works best for me:

uninstall drivers using DDU, disable automatic Windows driver installation (in DDU also)
install the driver from Dell
install the nvidia desktop driver
this may not be necessary but I also disable the onboard Nvidia card

Hope it will help others

Shidell commented 1 year ago

@dongngm Awesome! Thanks for confirming, and for the additional testing you did for the benefit of others.