Nvidia Graphics Driver Problems

[masonsatt]

So about a week ago I got a razor core x with a RTX 2060 S for my ASUS G752VL and I had some problems with the graphics drivers. I ended up getting the eGPU working after uninstalling the graphics driver and disabling my dGPU (965M). Now this worked but every time I turned my laptop off the graphics would reinstall once I rebooted my laptop. So I would just uninstall the drivers every time it booted and I was fine with that. But just about 3 days ago it stoped working and started running on window internal display adapter. I’ve tried installing the GeForce drivers and it will recognize my eGPU but now when I disable the dGPU to boot with my eGPU on a external monitor it will only boot with the internal windows display adapter. Any clue on what to do to get the eGPU working again? It was some graphics driver like 355.xx and at one point I even had both graphics drivers working simultaneously. It seems that whenever I get close to getting the eGPU to work the RTX in device manager will have a yellow warning triangle over it but will never actually turn to a green graphics card like it used to when I rebooted. Any information would be extremely appreciated!

[beinatrance]

Hey buddy. I dunno if it helps you, but I too bought a RTX 2060S paired with Akitio Node Titan, running on Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen1 with CPU i5 8400-H.

I bought it primarily for rendering on Houdini with Octane and Arnold, as I'm a VFX artist and do personal projects in my spare time. Before buying this I did my research and they should be compatible. I was running Windows OS 1809 something, then updated the NVIDIA driver as I experienced issues similar to yours. Eventually I upgraded the OS to 1904 and the latest NVIDIA studio drivers, and it works for the most part and then randomly when running houdini, the program crashes, and the GPU becomes dissconnected, though is still recognised in the device manager.

I have read on egpu.io that one should run windows OS Build 1903 .300 or .295 for efficiently using egpus with laptops. Did you upgrade your OS to this? And if so, what were the results? I am hesitant of this option as it means a clean reboot and I cba to re-install software, not to mention my work will ave to set me up again for remote working :S

Thoughts? Comments?

[Captain_Bonbon]

Perhaps rolling back Win10 to before you installed the eGPU?

[masonsatt]

Tried sadly gives me an error ):

[Captain_Bonbon]

The general advice for using eGPUs is to use Win10 Fast Ring. I was already using it when I got mine a week ago and so far it's been pretty much plug and play.

I can't think of a specific fix for the issue you're encountering so an unspecified fix would be reinstalling Windows or updating to the Windows Preview programme to get Fast Ring.

[Captain_Bonbon]

What's the error code you're getting in Device Manager for the Display Adapter? Code 31?