PC not detecting GPU, and can't find North Bridge on my bios.

[lodi]

Alright, I know. Another post? What the heck. But after I got my GTX 1050 in, and powering it on. I immediately went to Device Manager to see that my GTX 1050 wasn't noticed. Alright.
So I went to the bios and was looking for North Bridge but I couldn't find it.
My PC is a GT5678. An old PC I was gonna try to convert to a gaming one.
Any help?

Edit: Turned out there is no bios update. Im gonna build my own PC now, so thanks for the help!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Did you plug the Display into the NVIDIA Graphics Card?
You question doesn't even make sense. Install the GPU Driver, and done...

[Arya]

You have the card physically attached, but it's not fully installed yet. You're missing the firmware - which you'll need to download before it'll work. You can get that for free from this link - just input the particulars of your card and it'll provide the correct driver.

All Graphics Cards need a Driver(firmware) to work.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

[MaddDoktor [Linux]]

I would not call drivers "firmware". Firmware is usually realtively fixed nonvolatile memory (like eprom) on the device itself (like BIOS on the PC motherboard) that is rarely updated.

If you had an AMD graphics card before, did you totally uninstall AMD drivers "before" swapping cards, shut down, swap cards, then boot and install Nvidia drivers "after" swapping graphics cards? Do you know what PCI Express version your slot is? While PCIe 3.0 or 2.0 can work in a PCIe 1.0 slot, you may not get that good of performance from PCIe 1.0.

When I installed my GTX 750 Ti (PCIe 3.0) or GTX 550 Ti (PCIe 2.0) in a really old Dell with single core Pentium 3.2 GHz and PCIe 1.0 slot, streaming video had to be throttled to 480p to play smoothly on a 1280x720 DVI connected screen. So if your PC is old enough that it has a PCIe 1.0 slot, you might not get the full benefit of a modern graphics card.

Either of those cards or current GTX 1060 work fine at higher resolution on my PC from 2010 which has PCIe 2.0 with i5 650 CPU, recently upgraded to i7 870.

[hawkeye]

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I would not call drivers "firmware". Firmware is usually realtively fixed nonvolatile memory (like eprom) on the device itself (like BIOS on the PC motherboard) that is rarely updated.

Correct. It's part of the device itself and "firm" because it is always resident.

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Alright, I know. Another post? What the heck. But after I got my GTX 1050 in, and powering it on. I immediately went to Device Manager to see that my GTX 1050 wasn't noticed. Alright.
So I went to the bios and was looking for North Bridge but I couldn't find it.
My PC is a GT5678. An old PC I was gonna try to convert to a gaming one.
Any help?

It might not work without a bios update.

[Arya]

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I would not call drivers "firmware". Firmware is usually realtively fixed nonvolatile memory (like eprom) on the device itself (like BIOS on the PC motherboard) that is rarely updated.

Thanks for that. Would software be a better description?

[Cathulhu]

Simply call it what it is, a driver.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

your gateway mother board uses a Nforce chipset .. install Nvidia chipset drivers then your video drivers (run DDU if you had a existing card installed before ) .. dunno if old Nvidia Nforce boards are even supported under win 10 let alone win 7 or 8 (yes thats how old that motherboard is )

https://www.cnet.com/products/gateway-gt5678-tower-core-2-quad-q6600-2-4-ghz-4-gb-750-gb/specs/



as far as a bios update check gateways support site for an updated bios and Drivers

many of those OEM bios's are rather plain and do not support overclocking or many bios options ..AT all (make sure the onboard GPU = disabled )


you may need to get a new motherboard to run that GTX 1050 ..depending on how old it is
and if that PCI express slot supports your New vid card???? is iffy ..


and no your machine can not be made into whats classified as a gaming rig

[Big Boom Boom]

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I would not call drivers "firmware". Firmware is usually realtively fixed nonvolatile memory (like eprom) on the device itself (like BIOS on the PC motherboard) that is rarely updated.

Thanks for that. Would software be a better description?

Graphics driver.

A GPU firmware is the GPU BIOS itself. People do mod GPU BIOS quite a lot and many models have dual BIOS. Some people for instance mod BIOS for mining and Flash the original BIOS back to resell them. Some database like Guru3D has many BIOS that you can dl and flash at your own risk.

[Big Boom Boom]

It's not like OP can't boot with the new GPU, so at least it's working partially. Install drivers and try running game.