By default, an Nvidia Tesla C20XX card is configured to run as a high performance multithreaded coprocessor. You can use it to run CUDA and OpenCL programs, but it doesn't show up as an actual graphics card. If you hook up a display to it, the display runs with Microsoft's vgasave driver, and does not show up as a DirectX device.
I spent pretty much an entire day trying to figure out how to get it to run as a graphics card. In the back of my mind, I knew I had done it before, but just couldn't remember how. I spent ages on live chat with Nvidia customer support. I knew better than to trust first line support, and they were indeed a waste of time. I eventually eked the memory back into existence.
In the driver install folder (typically C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI" run the command "nvidia-smi -dm 0". This sets the driver to run in graphics mode, treating your Tesla card as a graphics card.
There's a number of reasons NVIDIA has two separate driver modes. Graphics processing tasks have a maximum time limit of 2 seconds, after which Windows thinks the GPU has hung, and resets it. If you have some high performance task running, say a raytracing operation that takes a minute, this may fail. Running in a pure compute mode avoids this problem, but also disables the card from appearing as a graphics device.
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