Joust gone gtx 280 sli, now bsods!!

engstrom0304 · 14 May 2009 at 14:20

Problem is on the title. Bsods occur quite often when booting windows.

I have an i7 also and a leadtek and asus gtx 280s sli.

This could be the jeantech 1000w abslolute or the fact that i am using a msi platinum and i have put the sli bios on it.

It did run crysis for a few mins.

EDIT:
Another symptom is that i will be playing a game and the screen will go blank. The screen will say no signal imput but when i press cntrl alt del it goes onto the task manager menu but if i click on task manager it will go black again.

mp260767 · 14 May 2009 at 14:32

have you tried running the cards seperate to make sure they work ok ?

StevenRaith · 14 May 2009 at 14:37

engstrom0304 said:
I have an i7 also and a leadtek and asus gtx 280s sli.

Um, aren't both cards meant to be the same make/model/ideally revision for SLI to work properly?

If this is incorrect, do point it out, but I'm sure that's what you are supposed to do, and I wouldn't expect two different manufacturers cards - reference or not - to SLI together.

Admiral Huddy · 14 May 2009 at 14:42

StevenRaith said:
Um, aren't both cards meant to be the same make and revision for SLI to work properly?

No this used to be the case on earlier SLi chipsets.

Op - I would try running a single card configuration and try both cards on their own as suggested.. If they both work on their own then the cards are fine. If they refuse to work in SLi then at least you know it's specific to this.. Do you have the auxilary power connected to the mobo? This is usually a molex connection.

Make sure that your drivers are upto to date to.

MeatLoaf · 14 May 2009 at 14:56

Increase the PCI-E frequency to 101 in the BIOS

engstrom0304 · 14 May 2009 at 15:57

MeatLoaf said:
Increase the PCI-E frequency to 101 in the BIOS

will do.

EDIT: Do you think the power supply is the culprit. I am using only 1 hard drive. And an i7 920

reflux · 14 May 2009 at 15:57

What amps does that PSU put out?

engstrom0304 · 14 May 2009 at 17:17

strangly enoughh when i am running at 3.990ghz with turbo off this does not seem to bsod at startup. Will report back on games.

Here is info on amps http://www.jeantech.com/1000.htm

EDIT: Would reinstalling vista be an idea?

bobbydigital · 14 May 2009 at 17:34

You have your processor clocked, and added another gfx card tried bumping up your NB voltage?

Also do what meatloaf said that is always a sure fix for SLI problems.

reflux · 14 May 2009 at 17:38

Turbo mode always causes me headaches with my rig, so it's always off.

hughythomas · 14 May 2009 at 17:39

Random - have you tried a memtest?

Managed to kill my ram over the weekend by seemingly doing nothing 3 of the 4 sticks are dead now! Do a mem test! Lol you gotta check all your options right/?!!

engstrom0304 · 14 May 2009 at 17:54

ill try those things. Thanks guys!

Anyway here are some crysis warhead benchies. with my i7 @ 4ghz and sli gtx 280

Gamer 2xaa

Enthusiast 2xaa

engstrom0304 · 14 May 2009 at 17:55

shall i do a memtest in windows or from boot

engstrom0304 · 14 May 2009 at 22:40

problem seems to be solved!!

spleenharvester · 14 May 2009 at 22:45

engstrom0304 said:
problem seems to be solved!!

Good to hear, but how?
Jeantech PSUs are meant to be pretty good, however I never put mine to use as I accidently exploded it on my first build :eek:

mp260767 · 15 May 2009 at 09:19

spleenharvester said:
Good to hear, but how?

as per spleen, always helpful for others that might have the same problem if you put in details of what you had to do to fix it

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Admiral Huddy · 15 May 2009 at 10:47

engstrom0304 said:
problem seems to be solved!!

Well you could at least take the time to share how you resolved the issue?

w3bbo · 15 May 2009 at 14:04

I think it was resolved by him taking a hammer to the PC in a fit of rage. :confused:

Care to elaborate engstrom0304?

engstrom0304 · 15 May 2009 at 21:36

well it seems to work after applying the overclock settings I had saved on a profile. So the simple answer is, I don't know exactly why it works now.

It could be no turbo or another cpu feature being different. I also changed the pci-e frequency to 101 and pci to 33.7

engstrom0304 · 16 May 2009 at 18:40

PROBLEM IS BACK!!!

Today due to an irrelevant other problem i lost all of my bios settings. Now i am almost certain the settings are back as they were but i cant be sure.

Anyway it kept getting bsods so I swapped the power of the graphics cards around and now the primary card has a green light indicating enough power and the other card has a red light showing not enough power.The psu info is this...

+3.3v __ +5v ____ +12v1___+12v2___+12v3___ +12v4 __-12v ____+5vsb
24a ____ 30a ____ 20a ____ 20a ____ 20a ____ 20a ____ 0.5a ____ 3a

there could be a chance i am balancing the power incorrectly across the rails??