Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn’t have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate.
I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won’t install in CSM mode… I’ve tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT… 😅 Boot partition with and without file system… 💀
I’ll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance.
Night👋🔌
3 keyboards and 2 mice.
Funny thing is, I have 2 keyboards and a standalone numpad and one mouse, but one of the keyboards registers itself in the system as keyboard and mouse, because it has mouse moving hotkeys.
So my system literally thinks I have 3 keyboards and 2 mice.
- I use a split ergo keyboard for typing. (this one has the mouse stuff)
- A 65% keyboard for gaming (so I have lots of room for the mouse and don’t have to change the keybindings for the split one)
- A numpad off to the left so it doesn’t block mouse space, need it for some games and spreadsheets.
After a work day is over I shove the split keyboard under the monitor and pull out the gaming one and place the mouse differently.
People that visit always comment on how weird that is, but it works for me.
American Megatrends make perfectly balanced BIOS with no glitches - Bhagavad Gita, circa second or first century BCE, literal translation
Why do you need a dedicated GPU if you don’t plan to use it anyways?
Because my CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics.
I think your bios can be updated to revision 4304
Thanks! This rig hasn’t been powered on since last year, that’s why 😅
That card probably also has an insanely old firmware too, but you ought to be able to set a 550 motherboard to bios mode instead of uefi and get past it.
I didn’t mention that in the OP but I did try both UEFI and legacy BIOS compatibility mode.
Would’ve been cool if I had the skills to flash the old card with some new firmware 🤣
Yeah get a simple but recent AMD card, older cards, especially nVidia are a nightmare. I had an old 980 TI which as a really good card still, but I couldn’t use it anymore because everything kept breaking. So I got me a recent AMD card and it has been running perfectly.
So I ended up ordering a ASUS GeForce GT 1030 silent anyway, because I couldn’t find any AMD GPUs that are less than or equal to 40 mm thick. I’m picking it up tomorrow and I’ll test it immediately. If it doesn’t work, I’ll return it.
Oof, that’s a terrible card. The GP108 chip is a rebatched mobile card Geforce MX 150, it’s a pretty ancient chip at this point. There are no drivers for it, so you’ll need to use older drivers or limited open source drivers. Unless you got it very very cheap that’s not going to work very well for you. It’s newer than a GT 220, but not by much.
Aaah fuck me. 😅 I haven’t payed yet, so maybe I’ll just leave it there then. Aaah how hard can this shit be 🤣
Edit: thanks for the heads up!!!
I had an old laptop with GeForce 8600M GT card, but it would only work with Linux Kernel versions up to 5.4.
Nice! :D Mind sharing the model number? :D
Yeah I have a RX 7600. It wasn’t brand new, but lightly used, bought it off a friend who upgraded. Paid around $200 for it, so I think a pretty good deal with current pricing.
Oooh! That is a nice deal! It wouldn’t fit in this rig though, maximum thickness is 40 mm because the two capture cards “surround” it… 😅
I think the one I have is 41mm, so that would be a tight fit. Can’t you rearrange the cards a bit to make some room? With only 40mm that would be hard to fit in any modern card.
The MOBO’s expansion card sockets are placed in such a way, that I’d have to get an ATX chassi to be absolutely sure. 🫠 Anyway, I’m trying out an ASUS GeForce GT 1030 silent tomorrow to start with.
