broken 9800GX2

[brigzilla]

i know people are probably sick of seing these threads but i have in my posession a, what i believe to be faulty 9800GX2. It was working fine until yesterday when windows blue screend on boot (in my other machine). It told me the Nvidia driver was to blame, so naturally i swapped out the video card for another (8800GTS) which booted into windows just fine, under the same driver i mite add.

I have done a quick google search and found that this is a common fault with the SLI bridge not being plugged in properly. Having then dismantled the card, and ensured the SLI bridges were firmly in place, i reassembled it. I am still getting the Blue screen issue, which i have read is caused by the second GPU being faulty or by a partially disconnected/damaged SLI cable. As the GPU is out of warranty I obviously cannot RMA it but is there anything i can try/do that could bring it back to life? (on and just to clarify, i have tested the card in my main system and i get the same blue screen)

any suggestions are welcome. thanks

 

[brigzilla]

ok i've done that. I did both PCB's one after the other, and now it doesnt BSOD immediately after windows boots, its about a minute or so until the screen goes black and doesnt come back. If I put another GPU in a primary PCI-e slot and that in the secondary it still crashes windows after a minute or so.

 

[brigzilla]

yeah just tried that, think ill just cob it in the bin. kinda just a paperweight now lol. thanks for the sugestions everyone