Unable to start Windows after installing video drivers

[davidst95]

Hi, I am having an issue passing my non-primary video card to a Windows VM.   I have a NVidia GT710 as my primary display in the top PCIe slot of my motherboard and an AMD RX 580 in the third slot.   After installing Windows 10, I install the AMD drivers.   After the setup Windows detects and sees the AMD card however Windows will not start after reboot if I have the AMD as the primary video card.  I am unable to ping the VM or RDP (after I initially enable it) into the VM.  When I have VNC enabled, I get a 'waiting on other display or user' error and will also not boot.

 

I tried reversing the video cards and get similar results.  I also tried adding the GPU BIOS but no luck.

 

If someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong, I would be greatly appreciative.   Thanks!

 

David

Edited November 4, 2019 by davidst95

[bastl]

@davidst95 Try to switch to Q35 as machine type when you first setting up the Windows VM. For some people this helped.

[testdasi]

10 hours ago, davidst95 said:

Hi, I am having an issue passing my non-primary video card to a Windows VM.   I have a NVidia GT710 as my primary display in the top PCIe slot of my motherboard and an AMD RX 580 in the third slot.   After installing Windows 10, I install the AMD drivers.   After the setup Windows detects and sees the AMD card however Windows will not start after reboot if I have the AMD as the primary video card.  I am unable to ping the VM or RDP (after I initially enable it) into the VM.  When I have VNC enabled, I get a 'waiting on other display or user' error and will also not boot.

Need clarification: so is the RX 580 primary (i.e. what UNRAID boots with) or not?

 

They are two vastly different situations.

[Gyunikuchan]

Running AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and Nvidia RTX 1070, switching to Q35 worked for me