So if the video card isn't working, it's probably more an issue of the motherboard preferring the on-board graphics. If this is a thing, it's usually configurable thorugh BIOS settings.

If your NVIDIA graphics card is not detecting HDMI monitors, here are some troubleshooting suggestions you can follow to fix the issue.

If NVIDIA Image Scaling is not showing or working, make sure that you have configured it correctly. Here are the steps you need to take.

It looks like older radeon pcie 2 cards may not work but I'm having a really tough time seeing for sure. What works really work in my case, just minimal functionality.