Veovis

Hi everyone, I'll save you the lengthy description of my system specs and just post my dxdiag (without the eGPU installed). DxDiag.txt So basically, I got the setup to work, but barely. I've tried every combination of the adapter's delay switches, but I can't get the system to boot to the external display on the nvidia card any more than maybe 25% of the time. So far, I've tried the following: Uninstalling the integrated Intel GPU drivers - When I tried this, it wouldn't recognize the eGPU at all. It only ever booted to the laptop's display in 800x600 resolution, even when the nvidia drivers were installed. Device manager displayed an error 43 on the nvidia card. Changing the boot order in the BIOS - I didn't get far with this. I apparently have a stripped-down BIOS that won't let me set the boot order. Whenever the system managed to boot correctly to the eGPU on the external display, it was always very temperamental. The main problem was TDR crashes. The drivers usually recover two or three times before crashing to a bluescreen; the crashes being more frequent whenever my browser or the Steam client was on my display, rather than in a game. In fact, I was even able to play a game for a couple of hours before I quit to do something else, and the display drivers promptly began to crash. I can't quite tell if this is a problem with the nvidia drivers (I've read a lot of other complaints about TDR errors on the nvidia forums, etc), if it has to do with the card not getting enough power (no external power ports on the card, and the adapter only lets 220 W through its PCI slot), or if it's a result of having to push the signal through the cable between the adapter and the pci-e slot. Maybe it's all of the above. Anyway, here's what I've tried: Editing the registry to increase the TDR delay time - I changed it from the default two seconds to ten seconds. Would increasing it further help? I'm usually pretty resourceful, but at this point I need some help to push me in the right direction towards a solution. I'm not a hardware expert, but I assumed this endeavor would be pretty much straightforward. I guess I was wrong. Any advice?