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Hey guys,
Today while playing a game, my computer froze, lots of interference/artifacts appeared on the screen, and I was forced to reboot manually. Upon rebooting, I immediately realized my graphics card- or one of them- has gone bad. The artifacts/interference is still on my screen and I'm wondering how I can disable SLI (as it appears only one card is damaged).
Image of my screen currently:
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Now I know I'd normally go into Nvidia Control Panel and disable SLI, but I no longer seem to have it. I uninstalled the drivers trying to fix the issue- and when I try to download the newest one to reinstall it fails after some time.
When I try to open Nvidia System Monitor which is the only Nvidia program on my computer, it says "GPU does not support the required OpenGL functionality." And that's where I get stuck.
since one of my graphics cards seems to be in working order, I'm guessing disabling SLI will fix my problems.. I just need a way to get into the nvidia control panel.
I'm going to try once more to install the graphics drivers, but any help will be appreciated! thank you!
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You could just remove the card if it is bad, anyways how did you come to the conclusion that one card is bad without doing separate stress testing of the cards.
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The only reason I concluded this is when I went into the display adapters option in the device manager. When I checked the properties of the first card it showed some ram usage information. Properties of the second card showed a message that said "no properties can be shown because this device has a problem." or something along those lines. How would I stress test the cards?
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Take one out, play a game or run a benchmark or something. Repeat with the other card.
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I'll do that as soon as I am able to remove one of the cards. I tried to unplug one of the cards from it's power source, and when I turned on the computer it emitted a loud and long beep. I'm currently looking for the proper way to uninstall the actual graphics card, but I see this bit: http://imgur.com/C2lDy.jpg and am wondering how exactly to remove this without permanent damage!
Also, I apologize for being so computer illiterate. Definitely trying everything I can to bring myself up to speed with this particular issue.
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I'm currently doing benchmarks/tests but what I did was remove the "main" card which I believed to be faulty and reoplaced it with the other card (which was above it). It worked perfectly and my computer was back to normal. SC2 runs fine and all is well.
I now plugged the "main" card back in above where it used to be and booted up my PC. The resolution was off, but I had an Nvidia control panel available and easily changed the resolution to my monitor's native.
Thank you all for your input and advice. I guess my last question is: What do I do with this graphics card? Do I leave it in with the SLi bridge? Remove the bridge? Remove the geraphics card and toss it? I'm still testing out different variations but I'll probably keep it as it is now (with both graphics cards in with the sli bridge. Only difference is that they've now swapped places). If that can cause further issues, please let me know!
Thanks again!
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Are you under warranty? Get that shit fixed
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