I need help troubleshooting this gpu

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Hi LTT comunity,

 

My friend picked up a desktop second hand with no GPU and bought a GTX660 to go with it. The 660 he got works well on my desktop. I plug it in his system and the motherboard won't recognize the gpu.

At first i thought it was a broken PCI-E slot. I take the GTX1060 out of my system and plug it in his motherboard and it fires up with no issues at all.

I tried cleaning the pins on the 660, clearing CMOS on his motherboard, changing ram slots... nothing worked.

 

Can someone help me figure out this problem?

 

My pc specs:

MSI Z170A gaming M5

i5-6400

Zotac GTX1060 mini

8gb ram

530w Thermaltake PSU

 

My friend's pc specs

Foxconn N15235 ver1.3

i5-2500

8gb ram

530w Thermaltake PSU (same as mine)

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1 hour ago, Not Wills said:

sound like the mb is not recogising the gpu, maybe theres something in the bios to force output to the gpu.

Noted. I'll check the bios