Best guess is that the particular card you have is UEFI only, and your motherboard needs a legacy BIOS ROM.

paradigital wrote on 2024-11-12, 15:50:

Best guess is that the particular card you have is UEFI only, and your motherboard needs a legacy BIOS ROM.

A card from 2016 hardly is uefi only, furthermore on the same pc I use a gtx 750 which is even newer and in a pc with am2 socket (which is bios only) works fine.

UEFI only started around then, don't rule it out.

As it happens, my youngest son has the same card (in my old i7-2600 system) and had booting problems. Turns out that the very long and fairly heavy card wasn't contacting the PCIe slot properly. Jiggling it about while re-seating it helped.

dionb wrote on 2024-11-13, 19:55:

UEFI only started around then, don't rule it out.

As it happens, my youngest son has the same card (in my old i7-2600 system) and had booting problems. Turns out that the very long and fairly heavy card wasn't contacting the PCIe slot properly. Jiggling it about while re-seating it helped.

Well the am2 platform is just the successor of socket 939 and the compaq cheap motherboard I use works fine with it, I tried to take it out and put it back a couple of time also, windows boots fine, I can hear the startup sound.

Not true, I had to flash pair of Asus GTX 750 cards to UEFI-aware so UEFI computer can start up with these and that was 5 years ago.

Even the Quadro video card FX 5600 had UEFI firmware and actually worked installed in a PC as it was from a Mac.

Cheers,

Uhm probably it's a bios\uefi video card issue, the problem is that there are no other bios available for this card.
From what I understood there isn't even a bios editor for such ati models.
The card is this one: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/sapphir … r7-370-oc.b3361

What can I do to make it work on the DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D ?

You can probably put a legacy card in the other PCIe slot, install drivers for R9 370 (assuming it get's detected under Windows), and pull legacy card out.
This way you should get image from it once Windows starts, BUT it will NOT show POST screen, and changing BIOS settings will be impossible.

agent_x007 wrote on 2024-11-21, 16:30:

You can probably put a legacy card in the other PCIe slot, install drivers for R9 370 (assuming it get's detected under Windows), and pull legacy card out.
This way you should get image from it once Windows starts, BUT it will NOT show POST screen, and changing BIOS settings will be impossible.

Thank you for the tip, definitely not, I mean I bought it just to see if it would give me better performance than the nvidia gtx 750ti but I'm not willing to be unable to access the bios. I will sell it straight away, those damn ati cards always have compatibility issues.

I'd blame DFI nF4 first, since they can be... problematic on compatibility side.
Is your card 2GB one, or 4GB model ?

Did you try to pencil mod to enable "SLI" on it ?
With x8 mode it should be doable to two GPUs at the same time (for some testing).

agent_x007 wrote on 2024-11-21, 20:02:

I'd blame DFI nF4 first, since they can be... problematic on compatibility side. Is your card 2GB one, or 4GB model ? […]
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I'd blame DFI nF4 first, since they can be... problematic on compatibility side.
Is your card 2GB one, or 4GB model ?

Did you try to pencil mod to enable "SLI" on it ?
With x8 mode it should be doable to two GPUs at the same time (for some testing).

2gb model
I could also use a pci card, I have a g400 that has driver for windows xp.
It may be a nf4 issue but the gtx 750 ti works just fine, I also have a similar issue with another computer (Intel Socket 1366), the ati card (a 5870 if I remember fine) hangs as soon it goes in 3d mode while every nvidia card I tried on that pc works fine and I ended up using a gtx 770, while in every other pc that specific card works fine...