(Code 43) Graphic card refuses to work- URGENT

[silentsnake]

Hi- I need this fixed urgently as i have design work to do

I was recently doing windows updates when i viewed the optional section (windows 7 and vista users know what im talking about) where there was a new Graphic card driver for my 9800 gx2 this got me all excited as i have been playing COD MW2 and have been having pretty poor FPS to what i was expecting.

Anyways i installed the driver using windows update restarted and tried to run COD where i got an error regarding Directx i tried other games and software which are GFX based- i went into device manager and saw that under display adapters both of my GFX cards (its a GX2) has a yellow ! mark beside it. i right clicked and viewed properties this is the device status message

Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (code 43)

I have tried system restore- which failed first and second time
i have tried uninstalling in safe mode and normal mode and using drive sweeper, just everytime windows starts, its as if it wasnt allowing any changes
i tried installing older drivers and beta drivers
I have now reformated and tried to install with the older drivers but still does not work!!!

Does anyone have any idea as to why my card is doing this? i will test my card in another pc a little later today just to confirm that it is not damaged.

My specs

Q9450
EVGA 780i
4gb 800mhz ram
1200watt coolermaster psu
EVGA 9800 GX2
Windows 7 pro 64bit

Regards and thank you for reading my very long post
SS


EDIT: by the way i have looked into it alot and tried more or less everything except this

http://www.code43.de/page1.html

I have never heard of AGP aperture size and iTS NT GNNA BE IN MY BIOS COS MY BOARD DOESNT SUPPORT AGP- maybe its something different on EVGa mobos hope this helps

[Petriodet]

haven't you got a second card to use? if you have do your design work with that in and worry about the problem later.
as for the problem you've tryed a lots of things.
a few more things you could try is removing the card and puttting it back in and make sure that all the power connections are in properly.if you mobo has more then one pci-e slot try putting it in a different slot. if all else fails try flashing the gfx bios.
and if it is broken i'll have it for £20

[silentsnake]

Originally Posted by Petriodet

haven't you got a second card to use? if you have do your design work with that in and worry about the problem later.
as for the problem you've tryed a lots of things.
a few more things you could try is removing the card and puttting it back in and make sure that all the power connections are in properly.if you mobo has more then one pci-e slot try putting it in a different slot. if all else fails try flashing the gfx bios.
and if it is broken i'll have it for £20

loooool! ill keep you in mind mate
nah unfortunantly i dont- i hate having things laying around if its not in use i usualy just sell it on.

Ive taken the card out completely then put it into a different pci-e slot but i get a message just after post where all the drives are detected and the memory is tested message states

" A single graphics card is detected in slot PCIE x16_2 or PCIE x15_3
Please move the graphics card to PCIE X16_1 slot for non-SLI operation"

Any idea what that means? i have 3 PCIE slots on this Mobo am i only allowed to use one of them :s

Anychance you can point me to a tut on how to flash Gfx bios?

Thanks

[Petriodet]

Originally Posted by silentsnake

loooool! ill keep you in mind mate
nah unfortunantly i dont- i hate having things laying around if its not in use i usualy just sell it on.

Ive taken the card out completely then put it into a different pci-e slot but i get a message just after post where all the drives are detected and the memory is tested message states

" A single graphics card is detected in slot PCIE x16_2 or PCIE x15_3
Please move the graphics card to PCIE X16_1 slot for non-SLI operation"

Any idea what that means? i have 3 PCIE slots on this Mobo am i only allowed to use one of them :s

Anychance you can point me to a tut on how to flash Gfx bios?

Thanks

have you tried putting it into a different machine?

[silentsnake]

Originally Posted by Petriodet

have you tried putting it into a different machine?

unfortunantly the other pc doesnt have an additional 8pin rail from the psu so i cant test it in there.

Small update- ive just installed my dads ATI X1950 pro hopefully i will completely wipe out anythign to do with Nvidia then put in my GX2 and install drivers



hmm... Shall i install with the latest driver or one just before latest?

thanks for any input at all

[silentsnake]

ok after instaling the ATI x1950 pro and completely wiping everythign to do with nvidia using driver sweeper then puttin the GX2 in and instaling the new driver from nvidia it still isnt working!

so i installed my GX2 into my dads computer using my PSU and voilà...... the same Code 43 on my dads computer meaning that its got to be somthing with the card! ... was kind of hoping it would be my motherboard because it would be a little cheaper to fix

Im gnna see if theres a way to flash my card and see if that works any ideas?

[silentsnake]

hmm... well i ran the flashing software and it doesnt even pick up my graphic card lol! so no im totally out of options!



My GFX card is OEM (i think thats the term used when it came as a whole pc) but i notice EVGA have 10year warrenty on these cards so does that mean im liable to an RMA seing as the company warrenty is over

[Petriodet]

you could try asking the company you bought it from but i doubt you will be able to return it to evga because you have to register for the extended warrenty.

[FragnaticDeath]

Hey had the same problem. Listen go into your nvidia settings when formatting and disable multi GPU.

I found the problem that when installing the new drivers the Multi GPU mode cannot be enabled making your 3d card crash. Nothing you can do m8.