GRAPHICS CARD TESTING HELP

[clayer]

hi
i most probably have a faulty graphics card i run crossfire disabling crossfire i can pass furmark with crossfire enabled my rig restarts , i would like to run furmak on my secondary card only how do i use secondary card, i have tried to switch moniter leads to secondary card but cannot get to desktop.

any help would be much appreciated as im pulling my hair out atm.

p.s as im water cooled not that easy to swap them round.

thanks

 

[stulid]

Can you not disable the PCI slot on that motherboard via dip switches?

 

[clayer]

yes i can not tried that yet as i thought it would turn moniter off i will give it a try

 

[clayer]

turning off slot 1 is a no go moniter wont work.

 

[stulid]

You plugged the monitor into the second card with the first card disabled?

 

[clayer]

hmm ok i tried to swap leads earlier ill swap leads and disable slot 1 brb ty

 

[clayer]

thanks stulid now im getting somewhere you must think im an idiot lol

ok going to stress secondary card now i hope this crashes to end my problems.

thanks

 

[clayer]

thats just great my theory is shattered primary passes furmark secondary passes furmark crossfire restarts pc i know of nothing else i can try might as well take it outside and throw it as far as i can, worst upgrade ever.

 

[stulid]

What I would do,

• BIOS update
• Reinstall with all new drivers etc.

 

[Kaapstad]

thats just great my theory is shattered primary passes furmark secondary passes furmark crossfire restarts pc i know of nothing else i can try might as well take it outside and throw it as far as i can, worst upgrade ever.

Leave furmark alone, it is total garbage and not a realistic guide or tool for a GPU.

Try running 3dmark firestrike or Heaven 4 if you want to use a benchmark.

I suspect your problem could be your PSU but not using furmark should cure it.

 

[clayer]

hi
i have done clean installs of all drivers old or new still restarts pc in crossfire whilst gaming usually after an hour maybe 2/3 temps are no more than 50 on both cards all mb bios are upto date.
i have had power supply tested by my local pc retailer no error, do you think it may be possible that when power supply is fully under load its failing as this would not show up on a test.

 

[clayer]

Leave furmark alone, it is total garbage and not a realistic guide or tool for a GPU.

Try running 3dmark firestrike or Heaven 4 if you want to use a benchmark.

I suspect your problem could be your PSU but not using furmark should cure it.

hi im only using furmark to stress each card to isolate the restart problem

 

[stulid]

Good reply above.

Is it just Furmark that crashes? or are you experiencing crashes when playing your favourite games?

 

[clayer]

pc restarts in all my games i mainly play arma2 sniper elite v2 bf4 basically all games i have just run 3dmark 11 basic edition on secondary card

P13395 with AMD Radeon R9 290X(1x) and Intel Core i7-4930K

can we rule out mb error in this scenario as both cards pass stress tests on their own.

 

[clayer]

just a note to add im currently running everything at defaults.

 

[clayer]

here is the error in event viewer event 41 kernal- power

System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}

EventID 41

Version 2

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000002

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2014-03-03T17:49:02.117608100Z

EventRecordID 118364

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8

Channel System

Computer clayer-PC

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18


- EventData

BugcheckCode 0
BugcheckParameter1 0x0
BugcheckParameter2 0x0
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress false
PowerButtonTimestamp 0

 

[stulid]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028504

Im not to clued up on error logs and stuff, but that link is what you are experiencing i think.

 

[clayer]

thanks for the help stulid although im still stuck in the same place,

i think im going to buy a new psu just to completely rule out any possible errors in the old 1.

my AX1200 has been used for 18 months solid 24/7 i never turn my pc off and its been on high overclocked pc with top end gpus.

maybe its struggling to reach my current requirements.

 

[Kaapstad]

thanks for the help stulid although im still stuck in the same place,

i think im going to buy a new psu just to completely rule out any possible errors in the old 1.

my AX1200 has been used for 18 months solid 24/7 i never turn my pc off and its been on high overclocked pc with top end gpus.

maybe its struggling to reach my current requirements.

The older AX1200 is highly regarded as a quality PSU

The newer AX1200i is not so good.

If you have the older PSU the problem could be somewhere else in your system.

 

[clayer]

is there any power usage monitoring software i can run whilst using crossfire that will record logs so i can see the crash error effects to rule out power supply.