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InTheCity   04-22-2009 at 11:40:47 PM

Ok, GTX 285 showing up in device manager.
Showing temps in Everest

But under PCI/AGP video
and GPU

I'm getting no Device description

And awful performance in games and with video.

I've tried settings, I've tried re-seating the device,
beta drivers, the original drivers and nothing seems to help.

So far I've tested in GTA IV and FSX, both giving me under 4 fps.

Any other advice?

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Bronze Graphics badge Bluescreendeath   04-22-2009 at 11:41:55 PM
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What?

Rephrase what you just said and give us more info.


Message edited by Bluescreendeath on 04-22-2009 at 11:42:29 PM
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InTheCity   04-22-2009 at 11:49:32 PM
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I'm simply stating that since flashing the bios and loading default settings,
it appears that my GTX 285 is no longer functional.

Is there anything in the bios that pertains to the functionality of this card,
that the default settings wouldn't have recognized?

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Outlander_04   04-23-2009 at 12:09:28 AM
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Its difficult to comment on the BIOS of your motherboard since you havent told us what mb you are using .

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bdcrlsn   04-23-2009 at 12:21:04 AM
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Could be any number of things...

Did you install the correct drivers?
Is the card overheating?
Did you plug in the 2 6-pin power connectors?

The list goes on...

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InTheCity   04-23-2009 at 01:16:15 AM
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It's an EVGA X58

The drivers should be ok, I tried default, rolling back and most recent. Nada.
Both 6pin power connectors are in place.

Card has two green lights that are on + fan is spinning.

It was all working fine until I went in to undo the overlclock that the guy shipped the machine with.

I flashed the bios. But since then I pressed the red button on the mobo,
followed by the green and then the reset button.

The system otherwise runs as usual, the NVdidia control panel works.
But my Cinebench score for Open GL is 0.

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chef7734   04-23-2009 at 03:20:56 AM
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Why did you flash the bios? did you flash the card bios or the mobo bios?

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InTheCity   04-23-2009 at 04:20:14 AM
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Turns out in the Bios there's a video setting for PCI or PCIe, that gets defaulted back to PCI when you reset cmos.

All is working now.

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