GTX 650 malfunction

[H0R53]

I'll do my best to describe the problem, patience is not my thing and neither is staying calm for very long, and honestly at this point I'm about to punch a hole in my computer monitor.

 

While I wait for my 1080ti Founder's Edition to arrive, I've upgraded my CPU to a Xeon 1240, which has no iGPU. Right now as of posting, my current configuration is as follows (subject to change):

Intel Xeon E3 1240

8GB Corsair XMS3 1333MHz

nVidia GTX 1050ti SSC

nVidia GTX 650
Corsair CX600

 

Left-most screen: VGA only - GTX 650

Middle Screen: VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI - GTX 1050ti SSC

Right-most screen: VGA or DVI - GTX 650

 

I do not want or need display port adapters or whatever. I'm not gonna daisychain a billion adapters. I already have a DVI-I to VGA adapter and that's it.

 

The 650 is having some problems. Sometimes when I log in from restart there's no transparency enabled and only the middle screen is working. After a reboot the problem goes away. I have checked connections, dusted, cleaned, unplugged and replugged, turned it off then on again, and the problem persists. I checked the capacitors on the 650, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them. I used DDU and then reinstalled drivers, so far the problem hasn't occurred but it may just be a matter of time.

 

It seems to me that the 650 is losing power, sometimes when I log in and check devmgmt.msc right away it's there without issue, but then when I scan for hardware changes it disappears.

 

I checked the card in my test bench and it doesn't seem to have this problem.

 

Does anyone have some insight into this problem? I'm not very good at solving complex problems on my own.

 

[KillerGamingBro]

16 minutes ago, H0R53 said:

I'll do my best to describe the problem, patience is not my thing and neither is staying calm for very long, and honestly at this point I'm about to punch a hole in my computer monitor.

 

While I wait for my 1080ti Founder's Edition to arrive, I've upgraded my CPU to a Xeon 1240, which has no iGPU. Right now as of posting, my current configuration is as follows (subject to change):

Intel Xeon E3 1240

8GB Corsair XMS3 1333MHz

nVidia GTX 1050ti SSC

nVidia GTX 650
Corsair CX600

 

Left-most screen: VGA only - GTX 650

Middle Screen: VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI - GTX 1050ti SSC

Right-most screen: VGA or DVI - GTX 650

 

I do not want or need display port adapters or whatever. I'm not gonna daisychain a billion adapters. I already have a DVI-I to VGA adapter and that's it.

 

The 650 is having some problems. Sometimes when I log in from restart there's no transparency enabled and only the middle screen is working. After a reboot the problem goes away. I have checked connections, dusted, cleaned, unplugged and replugged, turned it off then on again, and the problem persists. I checked the capacitors on the 650, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them. I used DDU and then reinstalled drivers, so far the problem hasn't occurred but it may just be a matter of time.

 

It seems to me that the 650 is losing power, sometimes when I log in and check devmgmt.msc right away it's there without issue, but then when I scan for hardware changes it disappears.

 

I checked the card in my test bench and it doesn't seem to have this problem.

 

Does anyone have some insight into this problem? I'm not very good at solving complex problems on my own.

 

 

Have you tried changing the slot the 650 is in? I could be a faulty slot.

[H0R53]

4 minutes ago, KillerGamingBro said:

Have you tried changing the slot the 650 is in? I could be a faulty slot.

I used to have a 460 in the slot the 650 is in now, and it worked just fine, so I doubt it's the slot.

[KillerGamingBro]

Just now, H0R53 said:

I used to have a 460 in the slot the 650 is in now, and it worked just fine, so I doubt it's the slot.

Just seems seeing as it works fine on the test bench, and doesn't work in the PC. Could it be the cable?

[H0R53]

3 minutes ago, KillerGamingBro said:

Just seems seeing as it works fine on the test bench, and doesn't work in the PC. Could it be the cable?

The 6-pin cable? I have two, one I'm not using, I'll try that in a minute.

[H0R53]

8 minutes ago, H0R53 said:

The 6-pin cable? I have two, one I'm not using, I'll try that in a minute.

Nothing's happened yet but I remember interchanging the cables everytime I'd add something or other, at one point I needed both of them and it worked fine.

[Technomancer__]

10 minutes ago, H0R53 said:

The 6-pin cable? I have two, one I'm not using, I'll try that in a minute.

check the total power the system consumes

[H0R53]

21 hours ago, Ethocreeper said:

check the total power the system consumes

I have a 600W PSU, I'm fine. I have an 80W processor, 5 HDDs, an SSD, 2 sticks of RAM and 2 GPUs, one of which has a minimum 300W requirement.

 

This problem is relatively new.

 

Device Manager reports: This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)

 

I tried the 650 drivers and then the 1050 drivers and now it happens right before the login screen pops up - my side monitors that are being controlled by the 650 shut off.

 

Edit: removed MSI Afterburner from startup and it seems to have alleviated the problem.

[H0R53]

Okay, problem's back.