Please help looking for stable driver for GTX295 sli! extreme problem

[grevius3]

Hello, ive been having a lot of stability problems lately on my rig. (2xBFG 295gtx)intel i7 950, EVGA x58 classified , corsair dominator 12GB ram, windows 7 ultimate 64bit, my screen keeps turning off and the computer is unresponsive( only hard reset is working). I had to give it to a technician cause i was at a dead-end , he told me that it seems that its a conflict from the graphics card drivers. and asked if i had the original driver cd that came with the box. the thing is that i dont and know im looking to find that specific driver in order to give it to the technician , please help me , what driver number is it? and if any1 knows a link that i can download it from i would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

 

[micropage7]

actually i guess its not just from driver
you need to check one by one and it looks from hardware

 

[newtekie1]

You don't want to use the driver that came on the CD, they are extremely outdated. Grab the latest drivers from nVidias website, as well as from your motherboard manufacturers website and install those, motherboard drivers first.

However, you might have to run driver sweeper or ccleaner to clear out the old nVidia drivers first to make sure they are installed clean.

If that doesn't solve the problem, I'd start looking at hardware going bad, possibly a failing video card. Are you using anything to monitor the temps of the cards? If not, I'd grab MSI Afterburner and use that to look at the temps, if they are getting too high the cards might just need a dusting, or the fans might be starting to go and need some oil.

 

[Norton]

Download links to NVidia drivers (revisions back to 2009) are located here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2119/NVIDIA_ForceWare_296.10_Vista__W7_64-bit.html

You can check through the release dates/release notes to find an earlier revision that may help you.

 

[trickson]

Hello, ive been having a lot of stability problems lately on my rig. (2xBFG 295gtx)intel i7 950, EVGA x58 classified , corsair dominator 12GB ram, windows 7 ultimate 64bit, my screen keeps turning off and the computer is unresponsive( only hard reset is working). I had to give it to a technician cause i was at a dead-end , he told me that it seems that its a conflict from the graphics card drivers. and asked if i had the original driver cd that came with the box. the thing is that i dont and know im looking to find that specific driver in order to give it to the technician , please help me , what driver number is it? and if any1 knows a link that i can download it from i would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

Well one thing is for sure this technician is not a very good one if you have to give him things he should know how to get and do. I hope he is a friend and that you are not paying him.
This could be caused by many things such as a corrupt install or Hibernation file. Bad RAM, Bad PSU. You could read the crash dump files and find out just what it is too.

 

[Law-II]

Hi

If it is this version of BFG GTX295

you require Forceware 181.20 whql


If it is this version of BFG GTX295

you require Forceware 185.85 whql

atb (all the best)

Law-II

 

[grevius3]

Thank you all for the quick replies , the thing is that the psu is new , installed two days ago, the problem thought is exactly the same as before . Here is the catch : my graphics cards work fine on an other pc , and my technicians graphics card works fine on MY pc. I got absolutely no problem with dust and temps, ram is checked and is working perfectly , hdd as well . All fans are ok and cables and connections too. Windows is original and pc has been formated twice. My technician proposed to replace the nvidia cards with Ati . He said maybe the evga x58 classified motherboard is incompatible with the bfg 295 gtx . Well that's stupid isn't it? Even so that's a nightmare for me since i paid 700+ euros when i got them and i don't want to replace them, btw the cards are the single pcb (not sure if i spelled it right) version

 

[erocker]

Use the drivers that Nvidia provides when you go to their website. Perhaps you should try testing out each card individually to see if a card is faulty. Don't bother going to the technician anymore.

 

[grevius3]

Please read the post above yours erocker cards are fine

 

[erocker]

Well... Your motherboard is perfectly capable of running two 295's. You checked both cards separately and in SLI in your machine and another machine?

 

[grevius3]

Yes i did

 

[grevius3]

Sorry im just bumping this im a bit desperate u c

 

[Crap Daddy]

What's your new PSU? Does your machine work with one 295? Have you tried both one by one? What makes you think it's the cards, the system can hard-lock from different reasons.

 

[trickson]

Look first take out one of the video cards testing each one. If the problem is still present then you need to test the RAM one by one, If the system is still having the same issue then you should look at testing the PSU. This could be a failing MB as well. It is hard to say but take and test each component one at a time and test them all one at a time. once you have done all this there will be one component that will be at fault.

 

[xBruce88x]

clean out your drivers, then use the version that is on the other pc that worked with your card. also, what model was your old psu and what model is the new one?

 

[erocker]

Sorry im just bumping this im a bit desperate u c

Please wait 24 hours between bumping your thread.


Thanks.

 

[grevius3]

Sorry for bumping too early , my new psu is a coolermaster 1200w the old one was the akasa 1200w I've checked each component individually and all seems fine,also its not the motherboard sine it worked fine with a different graphics card

 

[trickson]

Sorry for bumping too early , my new psu is a coolermaster 1200w the old one was the akasa 1200w I've checked each component individually and all seems fine,also its not the motherboard sine it worked fine with a different graphics card

Well it looks like you found the answer, The PSU was to blame. Good work.

 

[grevius3]

No the problem still exists. the psu was changed for testing . Im putting back the old one after all this.

 

[trickson]

No the problem still exists. the psu was changed for testing . Im putting back the old one after all this.

Then your mb is bad or can not handle the video card(s) you have.