OS Doesnt Boot

[brokebeardedguy]

I'm using slightly older system  to run some CNC equipment that I have. It's a poweredge 2950 gen 3.
The system has a pair of 5460s 32 gigs of RAM and a PCI USB 3.0 card.

I have a variety of graphics cards that I've tried in the system. Asus 210 slient, evga gs8300, Dell Quadro 2000, msi GTX 960.

My issue is it all the cards will Boot and work drivers install and everything is fine in Windows 7. Server 08, However when stepping up to Windows 10 Pro the machine fails to boot. If I remove the graphics card it boots using the on board video.

There's a new piece of software I'm trying to get but it's not compatible with 7 which is why the upgrade. Any thoughts or ideas why a card would work worth 7 but not 10?

[emosun]

more than likely it's the system that has an issue with windows 10 , not the gpu's. I'm willing to bet not every aspect of that server is debugged in windows 10.

try server 2012 or server 2016

[TheGamingLanceYT]

Get a open beta of windows server

[NickPickerWI]

I've seen hardware compatibility issues with Windows 10 on older machines.

 

I'm with @emosun on this one. A friend's laptop cooked his CPU because the motherboard didn't support Windows 10.

 

Granted, it was a Dell, but that's what it came down to that killed it.

[brokebeardedguy]

 

3 minutes ago, NickPickerWI said:

I've seen hardware compatibility issues with Windows 10 on older machines.

 

I'm with @emosun on this one. A friend's laptop cooked his CPU because the motherboard didn't support Windows 10.

 

Granted, it was a Dell, but that's what it came down to that killed it.

If the machine didn't boot at all id understand it being a compatibility issue for 10. 

 

was hoping their was some kind of way to manually install drivers for the card in hopes it was driver related.

I'm not much for debugging software issues

 

is their a place to grab cheep server 12 keys? I  only have one and its in use or can I install it offline? I'm assuming I would only have a few days to get a key?

I have a pile of keys for older OSs and only 15 or so for win 10 pro

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, brokebeardedguy said:

If the machine didn't boot at all id understand it being a compatibility issue for 10. 

well it's important to know that just becuase a machine boots doesn't mean it's working correctly or doesn't have errors. you could uninstall a dozen drivers and still have a machine boot.

 

[NickPickerWI]

Just now, brokebeardedguy said:

If the machine didn't boot at all id understand it being a compatibility issue for 10. 

That's far from true.

 

It's possible that your PCI-e slots don't work properly because of Windows 10. Your system would otherwise work fine, just not your PCI-e bus.

 

It's basically at the mercy of how the motherboard is screwing up on account of the board not supporting Win10/the chipset drivers not being compatible with Win10. I've seen people upgrade and singularly lose audio, USB, ethernet...

[NickPickerWI]

7 minutes ago, brokebeardedguy said:

was hoping their was some kind of way to manually install drivers for the card in hopes it was driver related.

I'm not much for debugging software issues

You can go to the manufacturer's website page for your components, and select drivers there. Do a Google search for "brand cardname drivers," i.e. "EVGA 1080ti FTW3 drivers."

 

I routinely have to do this on another PC when I build just to get the WiFi cards and motherboard to work properly at the jump (CD's and DVD's that come with the parts are great...when the client actually has a CD or DVD drive...).