NefariousNyx

I believe it is actually the card. Tried it on a friend's tower, and nothing. Doesn't explain why the radeon wouldn't pick up on my laptop though. I have another friend with a working GTX560ti I want to try just to see, and yet another friend with my exact laptop. (My friends all have cool stuff ) So there is testing yet to be done. I think I'm just gonna dump the cash and build a tower even if this works though, and let my friend have the adapter...so much headache for so long, and I've got the cash for Black Friday. So...come on Newegg and Fry's, treat me good

Hello Nando, or anyone else here who may be able to help. I was on the old thread on notebookreview as Slagatron Prime. I've got an HP 6460B, pe4l 2.1b and GTX560ti setup. Theoretically, this should all work as I have an i5-2540, HD 3000, an EC slot, gen. 2 capability, and no dGPU. Running it all with a Corsair CX600 PSU, so there are plenty of watts and amps to go around. I have setup 1.x and I've become decently familiar with it during all the faniggling I've done trying to get this to work. I've tried two PE3A's, and this is my second pe4l 2.1b. The first Nando figured must be faulty, since I could never get it to connect through setup1.x. By hotplugging, I was able to get sporadic connections, but only ONCE did I get the card to appear in device manager as a 560ti. Usually it would be labeled as standard VGA adapter, error 10, and I may have seen error 43 as well, but it has been a while. Never got the drivers to install. With the current pe4l, I can get the card to detect in setup 1.x as Nvidia after booting to setup 1.x, turning egpu off, then back on, then f5 rescan. Comes up on pci port 2 (1.2 connection) as an unconfigured Nvidia device. If I initialize and run 32A compaction across the board, I don't get the "unconfigured" part. If I check the PCIe device tree it shows a GF110 high def audio controller (meaning 500 series Fermi, which this card is), and an Nvidia card, but it doesn't say 560ti. I don't get why I need to do compaction as my TOLUD is 2.99 GB, But that seems to get it to connect. Once I boot windows, I'm greeted with a Standard VGA adapter in device manager, and a wonderful Error 10 (device cannot start). Windows does not seem to view the GPU as being Nvidia, and if I try to install the modified verde drivers using their setup.exe, I get "you do not have a display connected to an Nvidia adapter". If I don't run compaction in setup 1.x, that Nvidia message reads "could not detect nvidia adapter in system" or something similar. So there is a big difference - Nvidia control panel sees their card, but it isn't set up right. If I use System Information Viewer and check my PCI bus, it reports that I have a GTX460SE v2 on pci port 2, which is where it should be, but isn't the right card. However, the high def audio controller portion of the gpu is detected as being GF110. Again, that is the correct board for a GTX560ti. Attached are screenshots of SIV and setup 1.x. Any help is appreciated. I feel painfully close to success here, but always disappointingly far. Additionally, I have tried running an MSI ATI 6670 for variable elimination puposes, but I can't get that to detect at all. Not in setup 1.x, not in Win7, no matter what hot plug combos I use. Finally, putting my system on standby, hotplugging the eGPU, and resuming has never got me anywhere. Once again, thank you. SCN002.BMP SCN004.BMP SCN006.BMP