How do I update my drivers with a GTX 660 and two 210's?

[Happy73]

Hi,

I'm in a tough spot... Last year I had bought two 210's to put into my build that already had a GTX 660 in it. I somehow got it to work temporally before it blue screened me. At that point, I down graded from Win10 to Win 8.1 and had a buddy who knows computers set up the GPU drivers to where they would work properly with my 8 screens. Unfortunately, that buddy no longer lives in town and is too busy to help me anyway.

Since that time, I have needed to run an application that requires updated drivers and I've tried the last 4 GTX 660 drivers with no success. I've removed both of the 210's and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and updated the 660, adding one of the 210's back in to see if I can get any of the 210's screens to work properly with it and I haven't. Additional screens will show up on the 210, but the resolution cannot be adjusted higher than like 1280 x 720.

One thing to note would be in the Nvidia control panel, when plug one of the 210's in, I notice that most all of my options in the task bar thing disappear. I've attached a pic of this (everything in red is what disappears).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zwmf4sn9xvrq3w0/2017-04-15_14-54-07.bmp?dl=0
(I tried embedding the link but it didn't work)

I've tried downloading a 210 driver and then the 660 driver as well and that doesn't work either.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Elixer]

What exactly happens when you install the latest geforce drivers?
Does the installer see all the cards?

Take the installer, and unzip it with something like 7zip, then you can manually update the drivers by going into device manager, then select the card, then update drivers, "have disk" and point it to the correct directory when you unzipped them.

 

[Happy73]

What exactly happens when you install the latest geforce drivers?
Does the installer see all the cards?

Take the installer, and unzip it with something like 7zip, then you can manually update the drivers by going into device manager, then select the card, then update drivers, "have disk" and point it to the correct directory when you unzipped them.

No, I don't think I had any installer see all of the cards...

I've followed your directions and manually updated the drivers, starting with one of the 210's. When I installed the driver on that, all 4 screens across both of the 210's (2 screens per card) showed up fine. At that point, I went to the PCI bus that I believe was the GTX 660 and updated that with the 660 driver. Took a restart for that one to take effect and all 4 screen plugged into the 660 then showed up, but three of the four 210 screens went black and the remaining 210 screen went into a reduced resolution. When going back to the device manager to click on a 210 and see if I could re-install the driver for them, I got an error saying that the driver had already been installed for them.

Here is a pic:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6gotkmy0jx6nmb8/2017-04-16_6-53-03.bmp?dl=0

 

[Bouowmx]

Latest NVIDIA drivers do not work for GeForce 210 because Tesla is no longer in "supported products".

Last Windows 64-bit driver supporting both Tesla and Kepler: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/82467/en-us

 

[Happy73]

Latest NVIDIA drivers do not work for GeForce 210 because Tesla is no longer in "supported products".

Last Windows 64-bit driver supporting both Tesla and Kepler: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/82467/en-us

I think that was probably the driver that my buddy had installed for me. And it's so old, I don't think I'll be able to run the application that I need to.

This is making it seem like my only option is to get rid of the 210's on get a second 660.... do you know If I can run a total of 8 screens on two 660's?

 

[nvgpu]

Nvidia GPUs since Kepler can output to 4 monitors simultaneously if the card has at least 4 connectors. Kepler cards usually only have 1 DisplayPort, 1 HDMI and 2 DVI as standard configuration while Maxwell & Pascal and probably future GPU generations have 3 DisplayPort, 1 HDMI and 1 DVI as standard configuration, though GTX 1080 Ti & TITAN Xp omitted the DVI port.

Tesla microarchitecture GPUs are now only supported on R340 legacy driver branch while Kepler is on R381 driver branch with the latest driver.

You'll have to retire those 210 cards and buy a newer card with 4 output ports to replace them. You might need to buy DP to DVI adapters also if your monitors are DVI only because most cards these days only have 1 DVI connector.