I recently bought a EVGA Nvidia Geforce GT 610 to put in my old 4CoreDual-VSTA mobo so that I could turn the system into a HTPC. One problem is that the 4CoreDual-VSTA mobo is not recognising the card. I can plug it in and hook it up via HDMI to the TV fine but device manager is saying "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)" I've updated drivers but still no luck. Anyone any ideas with this.
Tried a clean install on another hard drive in the same PC, still problems , then into my other PC and that worked fine - conclusion I've come to is the motherboard is causing problems. It's a few years old but thought it would be OK with a low end graphics card. Didn't want to change it trying to recycle old equipment. Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk
I've even rolled back and installed vista, still no joy - the choices I have return the graphics card or look for a cheap mobo that would be good enough for a HTPC and work in tandem with GeForce GT 610. Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk
I think it's likely as that motherboard is crazy I remember when it came out, supports EVERYTHING! (just not very well).
I'm glad ASRock have grown up (a bit) now. They had a habit of trying too hard to get *ALL THE FEATURES* into some of their boards for a cut price. Reminds me of my ConRoeXFire-eSATA2.
I am pretty sure they either got bought out or there was a change of leadership at the top that inspired the change in their product lines - I am considering buying an asrock board at the moment, their recent offerings are decent. I know people who had the board in op, and changed most of the electronics on it, caps etc. to much higher quality components then benched them with old agp cards for benchmarks (still this is going back 5 years or so) - just about as bonkers as the original premise of the motherboard haha.
I would much rather go with an Atom or AMD APU E series ITX. You don't even need a discrete gpu with those for HD playback. I would return the card and sell what you have for whatever you can manage to get out of it and go with something nice small, energy efficient, and no moving parts for an htpc. While pci-e is largely backwards compatible, I don't think you're going to have a good time getting modern gpu to work well on a first gen pci-e slot running at only 4x.
I did return it, I've put the old AGP card back in the motherboard then thought about looking for a DVI to HDMI cable but the screen resolution only goes to 1024x768. I really did want full HD.
