Failing GeForce 7900 GS

[bill11uk]

I seem to have lost one of my nVidia cards the top card is not transmitting to monitor. Bottom card does work . But there is no SLI My configuration is 2 x 256 MB nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS nVVIDIA SLI. The card started to fail 2 weeks ago and has now completely failed

[Davey W]

Hi bill11uk,

Did you need to swap them around to get an output? Or are you using the system with both the cards in place, and the monitor connected to the lower card?

Also what were the symptoms 2 weeks ago?

Davey

[bill11uk]

I have left the cards as they where originally installed
Using the system with both the cards in place, and the monitor connected to the lower card
What started 2 weeks ago was that the monitor would stop displaying for a while and start displaying normally at the weekend the monitor stopped display completely I tried another monitory no luck . Monitors have always been plugged into top card right hand socket looking from rear
I also check the nVidia control software and it no long show options for SLI or even 2 monitories etc The bottom card seem to be the only one working and that seem in a a basice config Also this evening at start up there was a smell of overheating components

[shadowmaster]

Originally Posted by bill11uk

I have left the cards as they where originally installed
Using the system with both the cards in place, and the monitor connected to the lower card
What started 2 weeks ago was that the monitor would stop displaying for a while and start displaying normally at the weekend the monitor stopped display completely I tried another monitory no luck . Monitors have always been plugged into top card right hand socket looking from rear
I also check the nVidia control software and it no long show options for SLI or even 2 monitories etc The bottom card seem to be the only one working and that seem in a a basice config Also this evening at start up there was a smell of overheating components

Test one card at a time by taking the other one out. Also look at the fan/heatsink on the gfx card, is it clogged up with the dust?

Also how the temps of the card?

[bill11uk]

How do I check the temps please ?

[bill11uk]

I have switched the cards around so the faulty (dead), card is in bottom slot and Bottom one (working), in top slot Seem connections power etc are OK thus pointing to card being dead

[Davey W]

Hi bill11uk,

I'll arrange to have an engineer come out with a new pair of cards. Can I assume the contact details are same as we have on record from purchase?

If not could you PM me the address and telephone number?

Davey

[bill11uk]

Originally Posted by Davey W

Hi bill11uk,

I'll arrange to have an engineer come out with a new pair of cards. Can I assume the contact details are same as we have on record from purchase?

If not could you PM me the address and telephone number?

Davey

Davey,

Thanks

Bill

[shadowmaster]

Originally Posted by bill11uk

How do I check the temps please ?

Sorry about that, had a really busy day yesterday.

I personally use hwmonitor, as it gives me the temps of pretty much everything in my pc and is reasonably accurate.

CPUID

[bill11uk]

Thanks for the information and help have a good weekend