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.
I would try again on a clean copy of Windows just to rule out any software issues. If you're on Windows 7 and don't have any spared HDD or partition to do that, you can install a fresh copy inside a VHD file, boot from it, and then when done, erase it and go back to your old installation. (If you need more info on how to do that, I'll be happy to explain ) Otherwise, try it on another PC (a friend's one maybe), as it could be a DOA. Unfortunately, error 43 is a *very* generic failure code usually notified by the device driver, so it could either be software misconfiguration/issue or an hardware issue.
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.
AGP is dead, sorry but you have to deal with it. I would follow IvanIvanovich tip, I don't know your system specs, but I can only speculate that if you're running on a quadcore CPU, it would be at most an old 65nm Q6600 Kentsfield, with maybe a GeForce 7x00 or Radeon X800/x1600/x1800 on AGP. Even with full 1080p output from your graphic card, most if not *all* of the video decoding pipeline would be demanded to the CPU: G70 1st gen PureVideo had a very limited to non-existent h.264/VC-1 decoding support (and no DXVA if I remember right), same goes with the old R5x0 ATi cards, no UVD as well. This means huge load on the CPU, with good amount of heat/noise and, more important, power consumption (it's still a 95/105W TDP CPU). On the other side, a miniITX Brazos motherboard with the E350 APU retails for less than 60£, add less than 20£ for 2GB of DDR3 and you've got a nice board with full 1080p HDMI (and HDCP), full UVD 3rd gen (it even supports 3D Blu-Ray hw acceleration), low noise and power consumption. TL;DR If I were you, I would listen to IvanIvanovich, sell everything for ~100£ and buy an AMD E-350, 2gigs of ram, a miniITX case with DC-DC power supply, and live happy.
