Hi everyone. I recently bough a second hand Geforce GTX 750Ti. I managed to get it working by using nouvaeu driver, however when I tried to use nvidia proprietary drivers it failed. I am running Debian Testing/Buster and i tried the GPU on two different Towers one with a Xeon E3-1220 v5 and the …

I’m sorry, this is a fake card, it’s a bios modified GTS450, GF116. That one is only supported up until the v390 driver. You should try to get your money back. That card also won’t run stable with the legacy driver due to the memory amount is also fake, it will crash if something allocates more tha…

Thanks for the prompt answer, I opened a complaint with the seller. Can you point me where you got this information that is fake? Is it in the bug report or somwhere in lspci ? Thanks

In dmesg, the driver reports that it’s incompatible and the 390 legacy driver has to be used. sudo lspci -d 10de:* shows also the audio device, which reports the correct chip, GF116. ‘F’ stands for Fermi.

Fortunately I got refunded from the vendor, however he didn’t asked for the return of the video card. Is there a way to flash the right bios onto this video card and use it somehow? Thanks

Yes, but you would need a hardware programmer since software reflashing has been locked on those fake cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joVGTjB70dQ&feature=youtu.be Though it’s not really usable, a GTS450 just draws a lot of power for the performance of a current intel integrated gpu.

it’s a GTX 550-Ti, I’d just use it a few days for cuda debugging, while i wait for the new one to arrive. I tryied nvflash without luck. Any way to use it with the appropriate nvidia driver?

Not really. Like said, the memory amount is also fake. Fermi supports only cuda 8, btw.

Geforce GTX 750Ti not working with nvidia drivers

Graphics / Linux Linux

generix April 14, 2020, 3:20pm 9

A possibility would be to load the correct bios from file:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/lenovo-y550-gt-m240-vs-ubuntu-17-07-16-04-14-04/52095/18

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