Thinkstation S10 will not boot or post after GPU upgrade

[larryhill234]

Hello,

I am having a hard time getting this thinkstation S10 to boot with a new GPU. The pc runs just fine with the standard quadro fx 1700 in it. But as soon as i put my ati hd 5770 or nvidia gtx 460 in it wont post. When i put the new cards in i get wierd beep codes. Sometime they are 4-2-3-3 then sometimes its 1long and 2 short. It just shuts down and turns on and repeats but nothing comes up on the screen. The specs are listed and any help would be GREATLY appretiated.

Thanks

Larry

Thinkstation S10 6483

650w psu

3.ghz core 2 duo

4gb of ddr3 pc8500 ECC.

750gb hdd. 

Thanks again!!

[larryhill234]

As well the bios has been updated. And i have tried all the really obvious things.. Or at least i think i have..... 

Thanks again

[erik Community SuperMod · Accepted solution]

welcome to the forum!

the short answer is that those cards aren't supported.

officially-supported workstation graphics cards in the S10 include:

- quadro NVS290

- quadro FX370

- quadro FX570

- quadro FX1700

- quadro FX4600

- tesla C870

desktop or gaming cards aren't supported.   some users have found a few cards that worked but you'd need to search this forum to find them.

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

i use ATI 4870 in my S10, the ATI 5xxx doesn't work.

[larryhill234]

Thanks guys.... I appreciate that more than you know. I was beating my head against the wall trying to figure that out. Lead_org, can you elaborate exactly which card you are running? I see a few of the 4870's. Some are 1.0 some are 2.0 on the bus type. I have already bought and returned 3 different cards so i wanna make sure i get the right one this time.

thanks a million

Larry

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

i got the ASUS 512 mb 4870 dark knight edition.

[larryhill234]

I was looking to play arma2 or mw2 on this machine aside from doing work. Do you think the 1gb ddr5 edition of the 4870 will work? I dont know if its the speed of the card or the age or what. I tried the hd5770 and now i know its not supported for sure. But i also tried the gtx460 1gb ddr5 and it did the same thing. What do you think?

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

none of the thinkcentres and thinkstation support the ATI 5xxx cards. Not sure about the GTX4xx GPU, since i never used them.

I have used 1 gig version of the ATI 4870 and they work fine. I also use a ATI 3870 softmodded to a FireGL V7700 when i need better support for AutoCAD and Solidworks.

[erik Community SuperMod]

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larryhill234 wrote:

I dont know if its the speed of the card or the age or what.

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it's that your workstation was never intended to play games.

(lol... sorry... couldn't resist. )

[larryhill234]

I knew that was coming.. thanks erik.. But this was given to me so why not if possible?