I have another system that runs Windows 10 1607 LTSB (US English) and I put my GTX 1660 Ti (Turing) into the system. The Nvidia drivers for this card require Windows 10 1709 as a minimum as stated by Nvidia in the driver release notes : Using the method in post #42 with the driver mod provided by canonkong I was able to install the Windows 10 472.12 standard driver in Windows 10 1607 LTSB with the GTX 1660 Ti. The driver was installed in Test Mode and works in normal mode. The Nvidia Control Panel also works fine. Here is a picture of the GTX 1660 Ti with the modded 472.12 driver in Windows 10 1607 LTSB (US English) : So my conclusion is that the Turing (GTX 1600 / RTX 2000) series and at least some of the Ampere (RTX 3000) series cards (RTX 3050 excluded) can be made to work under Windows 10 1607 LTSB / Windows Server 2016 using the mod for the Windows 10 472.12 standard driver provided by canonkong and suitable edits of the nv_dispi.inf file in the 472.12 driver package.
This is very cool man!!! I have long dreamed of a driver for windows 10 1607 ltsb working under GTX 1660 Super. Can you help? There is another very stable favorite driver old v442.50, I have been using it for years, I really want to continue using it. Can you help with modifying that file? I uploaded the driver to Google Drive, as an installer and unpacked files. I beg you. drive.google (put a period and com) /drive/folders/1bZv-8qzrmBfMEaTQgB5-YnWbB3luf7GY?usp=sharing
maybe it's good, right now it has to be used, it was only necessary to correct the .inf file by adding copies of its ID GTX 1660 Super in a couple of places, on build 1607 it works fine. However, if you compare the size of the driver 472.12 and 442.50, then the newer driver is 128 MB fatter, they crammed a lot in there, maybe a bunch of security fixes and other technologies. After all, we roll back the OS in order to reduce the load on active processes, in this way a lighter driver can bring a better latency response. can you help with that driver version v442.50? I can pay for help. I left a link to the driver in Google cloud above.
Easiest way is to enable testsigning on Windows 7, when not using "secure boot". bcdedit /store X:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD /set {default} testsigning yes X is my partition with the EFI-bootloader on GPT Disk. This lets me install 475.14-desktop-win7-64bit-international.exe Without testsigning use NVidias latest WHQL driver: 474.11-desktop-windows7-64bit-international-whql.exe
They say 472.12 should work for Win 7, but it's not installing for me. It says not compatible with my O/S, even though their website documentation calls it a Win 7 driver.
Thanks, an intriguing curiosity is that manual driver search on Nvidia's website yields 10 options from 2017-2018, with 391.35 being the latest. It sounds like that may be my solution.
Thanks again. I took inspiration from this, and found that 388.71 installs on my machine. Now all appears well in device manager. Only one problem. Windows is not detecting the extra monitor. When I click on the Nvidia control panel, it says it's stopped working. I guess I don't really know whether it's the driver package or the hardware (maybe motherboard power being applied to this device?). Time to begin the tedious forms of troubleshooting.
Ahhh, thanks so much ! I had a sneaking suspicion nvidia's "manual search" was not showing me everything. I appreciate the updated drivers !
I hope this isn't futile. I just noticed in device manager the dedicated GPU is using IRQ 10H. Maybe that means it won't be any help at all in running without CSM ?
Related: forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/installing-windows-7-on-the-pure-uefi-systems-without-csm.80876/page-25 As far as I know, the ability to run Windows 7 successfully, without CSM, is linked to the possibility of running Windows 8.1 smoothly on the same configuration. The Nvidia drivers for Windows 8.1 are identical to those for Windows 7. My two cents. Thank you.
Yes ! ! ! ! Thank you so much. My issue with the video card is Dell's mobo. They don't allow both integrated and dedicated to run simultaneously. They did not let me make the choice in windows, so I had to go into the firmware to select the nvidia card. Taking encouragement from your last post, I then went back into the firmware to turn off CSM, and it boots Win 7 UEFI no CSM flawlessly ! ! Thanks for making this forum great ! !
Ha ha, I celebrated too early. I just discovered that turning off CSM also turns off the Optiplex 7050's USB 2 ports ! So, one more project, getting USB drivers that work on this machine without CSM. Hopefully this part of the project will be less daunting than getting the video to work without CSM.
Please check this post (USB_3x_fix2): https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1861262 If all else fails, I think some other skilled member can help you understand, at: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/usb-3-xhci-driver-stack-for-windows-7.81934/page-19 My two cents. Thank you.
Thanks so much, I'll want to study that thread. Who knows if the mini driver CD that comes with a few of the expansion cards would even have a driver that works without CSM. At the end of the thread it looks like Simplix adopted one of the solutions, so that's re-assuring. I guess I would want to use Simplix anyway, to get the secure boot update (since the bypass ESU threads are intimidating).
Windows update is offering a slightly newer nvidia driver. Probably safe to try it, now that I know my earlier difficulty was caused by this mobo's requirement to select the new card via firmware.
Thanks again! That thread made me think I would get USB drivers from Simplix, but I didn't see how to do so. I now have UEFI + Secure Boot, but no USB ports. PS2 keyboard and mouse until I get the USB driver !