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  1. ccsnet's post in Nivida 1060 New VM Not Starting And VM Unraid Screen Hanging With Either Windows 10 or 11 was marked as the answer   
    Hi all... I did it. 
     
    What an effort. 
     
    So I managed to get access to another windows pc so put my card in the second slot and followed nvidas advice to extract the bios here... https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4188/~/extracting-the-geforce-video-bios-rom-file
     
    I then edited the bios as per spaceinvaders guide...
     
    Guess what, it was bigger as I suspected so this means the extract script he provides does not always work. 
     
    Any way this was was not the end but the beginning of the end. 
     
    I left video=efifb:off & the pci grouping in place but did not make any changes to the xml. 
     
    I set the vm up as normal using q35 6.1 for Windows 10.
     
    I set the card as primary with the newly edited bios. 
     
    This worked first time so on to Windows 11.
     
    Here it got tricky as I decided to do a clean and fresh setup with no. Vnc and the nvidia as the primary card. 
     
    It was booting but only to the uefi (could explain what I saw earlier with it starting from the unraid point of view but not been able to access). 
     
    I had to type exit and then manually select the virtual dvd. 
     
    After adding in storage and network drivers during set up I was able to get to the gui but still had the error 43 on the driver. 
     
    To get rid of this I uninstalled the device and downloaded the latest driver set from nvidia which were some twelve months later than what Windows had installed so probably had the fix in for code 43 (Nvidia have started playing nice with virtual machines... Info on the Web). 
     
    This solved it. 
     
    So I've prepped and rebooted a few times so  fairly happy it's job done.
     
    I'm still not sure why it was booting to the uefi but hopefully it will not be an issue in the future, if it is this should help some one. 
     
    I may have a play in the future ie put my nvidia drivers on for unraid so I can get to the gui and remove video=efifb:off to make it more standard just to see if the changes make any difference. 
     
    I'll post here if I do. 
     
    Any thoughts on all the above especially the uefi booting? 
     
    Thanks to all those who helped on this thread. 
     
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