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Red tint/hue after upgrading laptops graphics cards? Cable of cooked cards?

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August 22, 2014 2:25:55 AM

Hi, long time lurker here! I think I royally screwed up, so I decided to make an account and see what you all think.

Anyway, I just changed out SLI'd 675m's for 880m's on my friends Alienware M18x R2.

Long story short, everything seemed to be going good (logged in, began downloading new drivers, etc), until about 3 minutes post boot, when the screen developed a red tint to it. Scared shitless about frying two 880m's, I held the power button until it shut down.

Do you think the red tint is due to me having screwed up somewhere there and the cards are cooking themselves? Normally I'd think I seated something wrong with a video cable, but the fact that this took a couple minutes to happen has the living daylights scared out of me. I'm actually scared to even turn this thing on right now for fear of totally frying them....valid concern or should the cards shut down before permanent damage occurs if I'm cooking them?

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm pretty much holding my breath right now.

Thank you!

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a c 250 U Graphics card
August 22, 2014 2:32:50 AM

Put the 675's back and see if you still get the red tinge.
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August 22, 2014 3:32:15 AM

I just took the second 880m out, and the red lines disappeared. Hoping it's just a bad SLI cable. I've read this can happen with one, but that confuses me since the drivers weren't installed yet (so how could it even be doing anything with that cable). I'm also a bit puzzled, as I think the primary card is the one on the left anyway, but I took the right hand side out.

I'll try reseating the second one next. If that doesn't work, these things don't care which bay a card is in if there is only one card, right? Worst case that would help me narrow down if it's the card or not.
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a c 250 U Graphics card
August 22, 2014 3:33:27 AM

The drivers are probably the same for both cards.
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a c 78 U Graphics card
August 22, 2014 3:39:25 AM

Yeah Ive seen and heard of glitches like that being bad SLI cable.
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a c 250 U Graphics card
August 22, 2014 3:43:26 AM

Its usually that the sli bridge hasn't been connected properly.
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August 22, 2014 4:13:53 AM

Spot on i7 & Rob Crezz! Re-seating the cable worked. I'm guessing I had it loose, and all the typing on the keyboard finally knocked it ever-so-slightly looser, causing the lined on the screen. I have both cards working now, except for my need to do the bios mod and inf hack.

Anyway, thank you for both answering, and I hope that further solidifying that a poor SLI connection (even when standard VGA drivers are installed) can still cause weird issues. Combine it with typing making it looser and looser from vibrations, and yeah.

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