9800gx2 problems

[Amitojc]

So I was running my computer fine until recently. I recently reformatted my computer, and upon doing so, I installed the latest nvidia driver directly from their site. I believe its the 260.99 driver. Well I installed it and reset my computer and after that my computer did not have the nvidia control panel (which is suppose to be there after installing the driver). Also when I went to device manager it had an exclamation mark on the 9800 gx2 under visual adapters. I believe the driver was not installed successfully. So I reset the computer and now the nvidia control panel is there. But within 5 minutes, the whole screen freezes with green and black lines. I cannot do anything but reset ( I believe it crashed) and now it doesn't open the driver again like before. What I believe is that this driver is having compatibility issues with my hardware. When it is running properly it fails thus causing the crash.

So What i did after was take out the card, clean it with compressed air, and put it back in. Problem is now nothing is getting displayed on the screen, and the card seems to be working fine. I tried both DVI ports and nothing is coming on my 24in benq monitor. Anyone can help with these problems?

 

[SHAQ]

It's possible the card is failing and you need to bake it. A lot of GX2's were revived that way.

 

[Amitojc]

What do you mean by baking? I am not sure how to go about doing that and is it warranty safe?

 

[Amitojc]

Well I got the card to work. I have a visual display. But now I am having my first problem, of when I install the nvidia drivers, the driver crashes. When I go to device manager it has an yellow exclamation point near the card. What might be causing that? When I say crash, I mean, I install it, and when I reset after install it doesn't open nvidia control panel, and has that yellow exclamation point on my video card. Also videos do not work and flash doesn't work, so its really hard to even web browse. What do you think?

 

[betasub]

Card is still on the way out. Only working in so far as providing basic video, and failing to install drivers then crash = close to death.

 

[Amitojc]

Card is still on the way out. Only working in so far as providing basic video, and failing to install drivers then crash = close to death.

Ya that is what I am thinking. Thanks for your help. Do you think baking might save it at this point?

 

[john3850]

Use gpuz and check to see if both cards list PCI-E x16@x16 2.0 and check clock speed etc.
The bad card always shows up wrong in Gpuz.
Blew a 7900gt rmad evga got a new 7950gt better card lost sli.
Blew a 2 week old 8800gt got a new updated card that never sli-ed correctly from that evga rma.
Now I blew 4890 cf after 3 weeks waiting I receive message from MSI
(We apologize for any inconvenience, but we are currently out of stock of suitable or comparable replacements for your unit. In this case we will need to provide you with a refund base on the market value of $170.00. Will you accept this refund?)
The goes my 4890 CF set up.
SLI and CF are nice as long as one card doesnt die.
Thinking about no more sli or cf.

 

[SHAQ]

Ya that is what I am thinking. Thanks for your help. Do you think baking might save it at this point?

If you have a lifetime warranty then I would go for that. Otherwise I would bake it. There are instructions on other forums. Overclock.net is one of them I believe. If it is a BFG card then you are out of luck but if it is EVGA then you should get it replaced from them. I think XFX is gone from the Nvidia market as well so they may not warranty it either.

 

[john3850]

Yellow mark is from the card not accepting the driver.
Trust all the posts your card is dying a slow death and will soon be dead.
Locate the dead card rma it if possible.
No rma then try the bake trick after stripping the card bare etc.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Good news if it is dying cause that card sucks. Sure glad to be rid of mine.

 

[MustangSVT]

have you already tried installing really old drivers that you remember worked for sure?