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Since we have been talking about NVIDIA drivers in the 570 series, and for some Pascal-series GPU's, it is worth Googling "NVIDIA end of support 580" to get links to lots of tech newletters expressing various thoughts about the upcoming end of support. This applies to Linux also, see for e...

"NVIDIA just works"... if you install ONE driver that works for both GPUs, at least in the special cases of identical GPUs below when ... ... you put 2xP1000 GPUs in the 2 PCIe3 x 16 slots of Z4G42-11 and install PB driver R570 U6 (573.42) from https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details...

From the desk of Z4G41-11 at 2:40am: The NVIDIA Installer for PB Driver 573.42 says that it cannot continue because "... This graphics driver could not find compatible hardware." The only available and relevant hardware was the GTX1080. Some further net searches found a user stating blunt...

"code31 on secondary Nvidia GPU" shows driver conflict as a cause Aha moment! Very helpful, unlike most MS error codes. It is still a puzzle that W11 would regard the 1080 as "secondary" when it's in the catbird seat up there at PCIe3 (x16) #1 and the P1000 is down on the bottom...

You sometimes have to dig down into the notes ... and sometimes it depends on which NVIDIA site you are on when you do your manual search for drivers. The last post was based on what https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/ had to say was OK for a GTX1080 (576.80 Studio driver at https://www.n...

There is certainly some e-literature suggesting that it is better two have two GPUs supported by the same driver. But the latest NVIDIA driver (576.80 Studio version) that suits the 1080 runs perfectly well under 7.6.21 and 8.4.9 as long as it is alone and NVIDIA says it spans the 10xx through 50xx ...

OK, I have just finished the tests I said I would do. On Z4G41-11, starting with the working 1080 in the upper PCI3 (x16) slot as usual, I added a P1000 in the lowest slot -PCI3 (x8). I got the usual result from Windows: the 1080 disabled with the complaint about driver problems. I fired up 7.6.21. ...

Thx. I did that sort of setup, but always I have just taken whatever numbers it gave me, and what it gave me when I had two GPU's was a "-1" which seems to be code for a disabled GPU? Which I then presumed was the result of Windows Device Manager having problems with associating GPU and dr...

First things first: here are the FahControl System Info pictures. [Image accidentally overwritten with inages of final successful result since I really don't know how to use Google Docs] The first one is running with just the GTX 1080, where all is well. The second one shows what happens when a P100...

post a link to that stored image here I have as little to do with external storage as possible, but let's see if my comparison of the cost per MPPD for the P1000, GTX1080, and RTX2060 makes it. Wattage is max for the GPU, PPD is from LARS GPU lists, cents per kWH is based on my upcoming "off-p...

I can't see anything at that link that says "studio drivers" but they might not work for folding .... you need to fill in the "Manual Driver Search" and download the full driver you need. RTX probably or GEforce. Yes, and when you select the GEForce 10 series and the GTX 1080, y...

Thanks folks. Drivers were latest studio drivers downloaded from NVidia, installed within the last few days since these Z4G4s only arrived on 18th June, and then installed again after problems (with trying to get two GPUsFolding). I also tried several iterations of earlier studio drivers. HP Perform...

Golly, that sounded exactly what I had expected and had done when it all went pear-shaped a few nights earlier. It SHOULD be like that. So easy that I just HAD to try it again. 1.5 hours and half a dozen dumped jobs later I had the GTX 1080 working again. I started with the simple Fah setup with no ...

I tried 8.4.9 and unfortunately "pretty much everything" doesn't seem to cover some of the things I do with settings in 7.6.1 and Windows 10 and now 11, so I reinstalled 7.6.21 from downloaded installation files, and if it disappears or becomes dysfunctional I may have to quit. However, it...

Could not find an existing post on this topic, so ... The general question is in the title, but my specific query is about using the two PCIe3 (x16) slots in HP Z4G4 Xeon-based workstations. Lately I bought two of these on eBay since none of my existing mothball flotilla of 1st and 3rd generation Z-...