Trouble with the ASUS P6T not recognizing the gtx285 graphics card

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eVGA tech support response:

Answered By Xxxxxx X (2/25/2009 12:36:35 PM): Xxxxxx, Try scaling the system down to one GPU and try each of them. If the cards go red, it generally means there an issue with power either from the psu or the pcie slots. Most SLI certified motherboards should let let you put the cards either next to each other or the first and third pcie slots and try them in each configuration as well.


I do not know what scaling down is... I did send a reply to this.

 

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EVGA seems to think you are running an SLI rig - they are saying take one of the cards out and try them individually. But I didn't see you mention that you are running with two cards in SLI... So EVGA is confused?

 

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Exactly, I replied and said I have one card and I am not running in SLI. I amd going to start by plugging the power into a different modular plug on my psu and than start moving the card into diffrent pci slots... i do have an ancient evga ti200 card in my other pc.

 

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Went to ai tweaker and set xmp profile and timings were displayed. Still got the black screen on cod5. Dropped the card to the next pci-e blue slot and there was a DirectX error.

Did run dxdiag and the card was not recognized in that slot???

Didn't bother going to the last white slot as I think is a 1x.

Will get a 256 gpu from a friend tomorrow at work to see if it's the mobo, card.... or psu (how do I test for the psu) got until this weekend to rma the gpu (11th hour) with the egg as I bought it last month and had it until I was able to get the rest of this pc build. thanks