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[DrSlamastika]

Thank you for sharing the informations.

[9erRed]

Greetings all,

At one time I had a similar issue, one card of the SLI would rarely return that error.

- Turned out to be a loose seating of the card in it's slot, and with the fans maxed out caused vibration to the point of 'jumping' some of the contact points. Swapping the matched cards didn't help, it was the slot.
- Cleaned the fan blades, reseated the card, insured the power plugs were dedicated, and haven't had that issue since.
(the locking end device for the card is not screwed but a sliding lock, tightened that also.)

At first I to though it was a faulty card, no, just contacts and the board shutting it off at any issue. Been running 4 months now with not one issue.

Good luck and do the detail level of cleaning and checking the slots. (powered off!)

9erRed

[DrSlamastika]

Thx Red, I will try that. Just remove card clean it up and put back?

[Alakan]

You mean...my card might not be dead after all?!

[9erRed]

Greetings all,

For me, (system power down, unplugged, power button pressed to drain any stored power.)

- After removing the cards, (both) cleaning the Fans and the contacts, (isopropyl alcohol, both cards and slots) reseating and confirming tight, attaching the SLI bridge, (had longer one that I used) and setting up straight power plugs from the PSU (2 six's each) it all worked. Now that's also confirming and ensuring that Nvidia control had a profile for manual fan speed to ramp them as the heat goes up. (I use that and have the Zotac brand 'Firestorm' monitoring program set to 'auto' as the 'fallback' control, Zotac cards)
- Nvidia update, Zotac update, win7 64bit updates, ASUS update (Mother Board). Or at least what needed to be updated.
- Checking for C++ and Net updates for 64bit. (just in case) It's all working as it should.

Be carful when re-installing the monitor plugs as this will/could move the vid card around, check security.
- If there's a failure, reseat cards carefully, (while everything is plugged into each) and power back up system.

The graphics drivers being suddenly 'turned off' for a vid card, is NOT a common application or program issue. Normally not.
- Serious problems with the signal, power, card heating/cooling are normally the reasons the board will 'shut down' that slot and return that error. (a short in the contacts will do that instantly) Now there are also 'quality and bad components or parts' that very well could 'pop' and lead to similar issues, but the board should see this on boot and error report it.
- Also helps to check customer reports for specific manufactures and brands for 'problems that may arise', again quality issues.
(getting that 'great deal' could also be someone 'reducing inventory/or getting rid of' a model that has or will have issues soon.)

Update:
A card can actually 'just go bad', normally indicating a Cap or resister has failed. If you've ever done any PCB solder work you'll be able to find or see which item (s) have failed. But unless you have the correct tools and parts, not much can be done. (most often it's poor quality Caps that fail, but could also be a bad solder joint)
- Again quality of workmanship, have seen the output connector have bad soldering, its a through board connector and normally hand worked. (just some common failure items.)

Good luck,
9erRed

Edited by 9erRed, 07 April 2015 - 02:23 AM.