GTX 295 only 1 working GPU?

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

Well I bought a GTX 295 used on fleabay as parts only. The card posts and works off of the HDMI port for video but doesn't recognize the second GPU at all and it will not SLi with my other GTX 295.

Anyone have any ideas on making it work again? I am pulling it apart right now trying to see if some new paste and baking will fix it.

brandonwh64 · Sep 5, 2012

is it the dual PCB model? Those had an issue with one dieing but the other remained operational but really crippled the card. As you mentioned you could try baking.

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

yup dual PCB version...How will the SLi bridge respond to baking?

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

Well after cleaning 10lbs of fucking thermal paste off its in the oven...

and use that is a fucking huge toaster oven.

mlee49 · Sep 5, 2012

Good luck man, hope that fixes it.

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

mlee49 said:
Good luck man, hope that fixes it.

No go still a dead GPU. What is weird is it wont let my SLi the single GTX 295...

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

Any suggestions?

sneekypeet · Sep 5, 2012

Sorry but does the CH III even support SLI?

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

sneekypeet said:
Sorry but does the CH III even support SLI?

Maybe....

I wonder if I disco the internal SLi bridges on the upper PCB (the dead one) if I can remove the extra power connector and flash it to a GTX285 for SLi. I have already tried the different card SLi drivers...

dhdude · Sep 5, 2012

It's a shame the baking trick didn't work this time man, I haven't had much luck with that recently either

ZenZimZaliben · Sep 5, 2012

common problem with those cards. My buddy had Sli'd gtx295s and in the end he had 1 core on each card working. Still managed to sli them for basically 1 gtx295 but what a waste. Heat was the killer.

sneekypeet · Sep 5, 2012

cdawall said:
Maybe....

specs at ASUS show only Crossfire....maybe you should look at the SLI hack here and see if the second card can at least tri-SLI!?!?

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

dhdude said:
It's a shame the baking trick didn't work this time man, I haven't had much luck with that recently either

Hold on

ZenZimZaliben said:
common problem with those cards. My buddy had Sli'd gtx295s and in the end he had 1 core on each card working. Still managed to sli them for basically 1 gtx295 but what a waste. Heat was the killer.

For one second

BOOM IDK WTF HAPPENED?!

sneekypeet said:
specs at ASUS show only Crossfire....maybe you should look at the SLI hack here and see if the second card can at least tri-SLI!?!?

That's what I posted in the pic.

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

And quad sli is enabled

sneekypeet · Sep 5, 2012

congrats, odd, but all the same at least its working now!

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

sneekypeet said:
congrats, odd, but all the same at least its working now!

Really odd now to see if I can get the other card with three outputs to run as the main and use all the monitors with sli working.

DOM · Sep 5, 2012

nice post some benchmarks

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

DOM said:
nice post some benchmarks

Planning on it :-D

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

Anybody know who makes this block? From what I can see it looks like the right block for my dual pcb card.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GTX295-WaterBlock-/110947263732?pt=US_Water_Cooling&hash=item19d4f8e4f4

Damon good price if it is and will work with my swifty block on the single pcb card that I already have.

DOM · Sep 5, 2012

i would have to think DD

cdawall · Sep 5, 2012

DOM said:
i would have to think DD

Figured it out it's a 9800gx2 block from danger den.

cdawall · Sep 6, 2012

No idea whats good in that one. No screen tearing which I am pretty excited about...Seems a little low but I had the second monitor running the entire time with temps up and the CPU isn't cranked up...

DOM · Sep 6, 2012

No vantage or any 3dmark benches ?

I haven't ran that bench in forever and plus I don't own any of those crysis games XD

cdawall · Sep 6, 2012

DOM said:
No vantage or any 3dmark benches ?

I haven't ran that bench in forever and plus I don't own any of those crysis games XD

Working on it had that one easily available. Had to download new copies of all the 3dmarks.

cdawall · Sep 6, 2012

So I keep failing the HDR/SM3.0 testing in 3dmark06...Temps are fine maybe I can try bumping the voltage up on that card since it's the old dual PCB with volt controls.

Odd the baked card passed at stock no glitches will try the other one now...

hmmm turns out the single PCB GTX 295 is the one failing...will have to pull it apart and see the issue.

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