WRMNGR Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 (edited) Hello out there. Heres some details on my hopefully soon to be working system. A8 6410 apu (weak i kno) 4 gig ram Win 8.1 Evga 950gtx EXP GDC Beast egpu thingy plugged into network card slot Alright so I spent alll day yesterday trying to get this to work. Finally I caved and bought the setup 1x but am now worried that I cant even use it. Upon running the program, I am advised to change disk to mbr and boot to legacy. My boot already appears to be legacy but im worried that if I change disk to mbr then i wont be able to reinstall windows. I have no disc. Thats my only immediate concern. I'll try to outline what I have tried so far. 1. Plugged in egpu with card and booted. 2. Card recognized (not specifically tho) 3. Disabled onboard and installed latest nvidia driverz. 4. Reboot. 950gtx recognized. Buuut new onboard graphics display replaced the last one I disabled. (The 1st onboard was R5 graphics then Microsoft basic display adapter replaced it). 5. Code 12 on 950gtx I know I have missed many details but those are the basics. Any help would be soooo appreciated. Im so anxious to do some oblivion vr!! Edited September 23, 2016 by WRMNGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRMNGR Posted September 27, 2016 Author Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm desperate here guys. I'm willing to bet just about all of you know more about this than I do. Please, any tips?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 did you solve the problem??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRMNGR Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 Nah, I haven't worked on it in weeks either. I figure if 80 some people look at my problem and have nothing to say that my situation must be pretty hopeless. I'm just starting to poke back at the project. Hopefully I will have a revelation soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 53 minutes ago, WRMNGR said: Nah, I haven't worked on it in weeks either. I figure if 80 some people look at my problem and have nothing to say that my situation must be pretty hopeless. I'm just starting to poke back at the project. Hopefully I will have a revelation soon. What version of Windows? If you have your product key, then you can download an ISO and burn USB installation media to do a clean install with your drive configured as MBR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRMNGR Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 Thanks for the response. It's win 8.1 (not sure if thats specific enough). I have tried something like what you suggest in the past and couldn't get it to work and it kinda drove me crazy so I would like to avoid that. I have just bought a windows 8.1 recovery disc for HP's. Hoping that will do it. Also I read that Windows would automatically pull the key when reinstalling windows. Assuming that is true and assuming that I can convert to MBR with a windows reinstall then I should be good. Guessing it won't be that easy though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Don't disturb your current Windows installation until you have your product key. If Windows setup does not extract the information from the BIOS certificate for some reason you'll be up the creek without a paddle. There are a number of free utilities you can use to get that information. Print it or save an electronic copy (or both) somewhere other than your computer. If you use Diskpart/clean/convert mbr the HP recovery media will most likely work fine unless they did something silly like requiring it to be GPT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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