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gtx 295 error code 43

jamesd

jamesd

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I recently bought a XFX GTX 295 from ebay. I fitted the card and booted the PC. The PC started normally and I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from Nvidia. The installation completed with no problems, but in device manager the cards have a yellow exclimation mark against it and says it has an error code 43 and that the card had reported problems and had been stopped.

Is this a problem with drivers or is this a problem with the card its self. The PC does not restart or have any corruption on the screen and doesnt appear to have any other problems.

the system specs are:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 NVIDIA® nForce® 680i SLI MCP Chipset

CPU: Intel® Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition 955 3.46 (clocked to 4.2)

RAM: 6GB corsair

PSU: Thermaltake 680 watt

HDD: 200GB SATA segate

Graphics: XFX 295 GTX, previously I had 2x 7800GTX's in SLI

And Its running Windows 7 ultimate 64bit edition

I'm kinda thinking the cards dead but I just wanted to know if there was anything else I could try before it goes in the bin.

Thanks
 
Code 43 usually means card death :(.

I've read of one maybe two people who have wiped their Windows installation and that has helped them but that is really the minority so I'd only suggest that if you have no other option. Do you have a spare HDD to maybe try a fresh installation of Windows or do you have enough space to make a partition to install Windows on to?.

If you would rather just get your money back then get in contact with the seller if everything else you try fails. Good luck.
 
Does the card do a post.

Are you running that card as a sli or singular one. If so plug them in separately if sli.

Could you uninstall all the drivers and reinstall with the release drivers as when that gpu was released.

If that does not work then do a returns claim form.

Btw one more thing did you plug in the power connector for that card.

Kenneth.
 
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I do have a spare hdd so I shall perform a fresh install of windows and see if that helps. I do not have the original driver disk for the card so I am un able to install the original release drivers :(

I have a 6 pin and 8 pin power cables connected to the card, but my power supply only had two 6 pin power connectors and I have used a 6 to 8 pin adapter which has added two grounds to the 6 pin connector. I am not sure how to check if the card posts unless you mean does it display it's own information screen before the bios screen loads, then it doesnt but it does display a blue light on the back of the card.

Sorry if this reply has mistakes I sent it using my phone and it's a bit akward.

Thanks for the replies I shall try the suggestions as soon as I can.

Thanks
 
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yes when you press the power button do you get stats on your screen "its what you would get before windows loads up" yes its the bios showing you the hardware screen ie memory count etc

Kenneth
 
I don't get any stats for the video card but I get the usual stats for the pc and the normal pc bios coming up.

With regards to the return I'm not sure if I can return it becuase the listing said it was removed fully working from a pc two months ago but hadn't been tested since so it was being sold for spares or repairs with no returns. I did ask the seller if he had any reson to belive that the card would not work and he said no becuase it was fully working when he removed it.

Thanks
 
ok if he has said it was fully working when he removed it, then follow Cleeecooo post and do a paypal claim stating that its not working and make a point that the seller has said in replys that it was working should get you your refund include any replies, emails etc in the claim k.

Kenneth
 
Ok I have performed a clean install of windows 7 on the computer, however it did not work. During the install the pc kept restarting if the 295 gtx was connected, I had to put my 7800gtx back in to get the install completed. I tried finishing the install and then swapping to the 295 gtx as soon as the install had finished and before I loaded any drivers. Again the pc would not load windows with this card it kept saying it needed to restart or do a repair. I let it do a repair and it still wouldn't load windows. I put the 7800gtx and the pc started fine, I installed the driver from the nvidia site for the 7800GTX, then switched off the pc and put the 295 GTX back in and this time the pc started and loaded windows but it had the same code 43 error. I tried installing the driver for the295 from nvidia site and still the same error.

I take it this proves that the card is dead? I messaged the seller again telling him I had this problem and he said he never had that problem and he assures me the card worked when he last used it. He said code 43 sounds like a driver problem.

Thanks for all the help guys I think I shall try and get a refund
 
Yeah it usually means the death of the card. I only suggested to do the Windows installation on a partition due to reading of a few users who said this fixed their problem but for the majority it meant RIP GPU. A card (7600GT) I bought for a friend many moons ago showed up this error on his PC and is still lying in a box in my home somewhere.

If you can't get a refund or end up keeping the card then you should Google "GPU oven fix" or "GPU oven trick" and have a read.
 
I thought so! The pc will not complete a fresh windows installation with that card fitted it just reboots. The only way the card doesn't restart the pc is if I complete the install with my 7800 GTX and install the driver from the nvidia site for it. Then power down the pc remove the 7800 GTX and fit the 295 GTX. If it is a fresh install of windows with no drivers installed at all then windows won't load it just restarts, but if there is an nvidia driver installed either for the 295 or the 7800 then windows will load and display the error 43.

The seller still maintains its a driver problem but I think the card was dead when he removed it from his pc and thats why it was listed as "pulled from a working machine but not tested in 2 months therefore listed as faulty".

You mention this oven fix I assume that this is similar to the xbox360 oven repair methood which repairs bad solder connections? If you you can get an xbox professionally reflowed can the same be done for these cards?

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions they have been a great help
 
it is not a driver problem it's the card , i had the same with a 9800 gx2 which gave the error code 43 . tried everything and nothing worked even the oven trick
 
Ok thanks I shall replace the card.

What would be a decent card to repalce it with? I have £100 and was thinking the GTX 550 Ti? The aim is to play skyrim on resonable settings
 
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