Help: GTX295 electrical squeel + only one GPU working! :'(

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Rakky

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Everything had been working fine for about a week after got the card. Yesterday I installed Crysis and maxed out all the graphics. Then the computer crashed when I clicked apply. Once rebooted back into windows, windows said that it could not find any graphics card information. Then I rebooted again and it detected my GTX295 again and the drivers were working again.

Now only one of the 2 GPU's works :eek:. I have made sure both are activated in the latest 182.06 nVidia drivers. I have also made sure that everything is ok in the BIOS.

Secondly, when under stress (games) the video card makes a semi-high-pitched electrical squeel. It's not the fan, I installed ASUS Smart-doctor to play around with fan speeds in windows and all speeds are fine.

I'm honestly shitting myself, this is such an expensive video card and I really don't want to have to go through the hassle of getting it replaced. Is it defective? A few people suggested it may be my power supply? (750w thermaltake toughpower)

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That electrical squeal is normal electrical noises that you will hear under load. As far as only one gpu working...probably driver issues. Just be glad it isn't blue screening like a lot of other nvidia cards.
 
Yeh but both issues took a week to kick in. It seems a little strange.

I doubt it is driver issues, I have tried reinstalling the drivers many times. Is there any specific programs which will test each GPU individually?

OCCT v3 only detects the temperature on 1 GPU. What else can I use to be sure both are working?
 
Your card sounds fuckxored. Time for RMA. It is very possible that the heat load from crysis damaged the 2nd GPU. It was probably a defective unit that slipped through QA.
 
Ok according to nHancer SLI / both GPU's are working. I wonder why I can only see the temperature on one card? Now crysis is rendering all funny, the aspect ratio is way out each side overlaps on to the other, no idea if its related. I just want to be sure my card if actually defective before I return it.
 
With only 1 GPU working and the squealing sound, I wouldn't mess around, get it replaced under warranty. I would have even got it replaced just for the squealing problem !
 
So what brand videocard do you have? Since you installed Asus smart doctor I assume you have an Asus. Is this correct?
 
Yeh it is an ASUS one. Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it.

I did a little research, apparantly the electrical hiss is semi-normal and quite common.

No idea why one GPU failed thou :(
 
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