System does not recognize GTX 285

[TorqueR11]

Hi All,

I've just bought a fairly old card but it suits me. Only problem is, I can't get it installed.
Currently I can view my screen on the old VGA which is a Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 1GB but it will neither work, wether i put both in them or only the GTX285. Green lights do show on the GTX 285 which indicate it gets power?

What I've done so far is ofcourse looking through the webs for solutions and thus the following:
- Make sure my MoBo (GA-P35-DS3P) is compatible with the card. (it is)
- Make sure the two PCI-E slots are seperately powered (because amps)
- Make sure it gets power (two 6 pin PCI-E and optional molex via MoBo)
- Refitted/reconnected on both available PCI-E x16 (2.0) slots
- Checked Bios if there are any PCI-E configurations, which might interfere. (There aren't)

System:
- MoBo: GA-P35-DS3P (rev 1.0) BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
- PSU: EPS 650W Energon
- Ram: 8GB 800Mhz
- CPU: Intel core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5Ghz
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)

Thanks for the effort!

Cheers,

TorqueR11

 

[10tacle]

In an older rig like that, never put an AMD and Nvidia card together. You will get driver conflicts. Speaking of, Nvidia stopped supporting the GTX 2xx series at driver version 344.11 (Sep. 2014). It's considered an end of life product and no longer supported.

Try downloading and installing Nvidia driver version 340.52 (July 2014) and get rid of your AMD drivers (do this first) with a driver sweeping tool like CCLeaner. Here's the link to Nvidia's 340.52:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverresults.aspx/77224/en-us

 

[TorqueR11]

In an older rig like that, never put an AMD and Nvidia card together. You will get driver conflicts. Speaking of, Nvidia stopped supporting the GTX 2xx series at driver version 344.11 (Sep. 2014). It's considered an end of life product and no longer supported.

Try downloading and installing Nvidia driver version 340.52 (July 2014) and get rid of your AMD drivers (do this first) with a driver sweeping tool like CCLeaner. Here's the link to Nvidia's 340.52:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverresults.aspx/77224/en-us

Thanks for your answer.

Ok I downloaded the 340.52 driver. Then uninstalled AMD drivers with ccleaner and deleted all other files and maps. Reboot. (with both cards still in and DVI connected to HD 4670.)
Then installed the 340.52 driver. When Nvidea does a system check, it does not recognize any compatible hardware. Shutdown.
Take out HD 4670. Startup with DVI connected to GTX 285. No screen and long post beep (vga problem). Hard shutdown with powerbutton.
Put HD 4670 back in and switch places with GTX 285. DVI to HD 4670. Startup. Device manager displays only HD 4670.

So what's next?

Greetz

 

[10tacle]

Ok I downloaded the 340.52 driver. Then uninstalled AMD drivers with ccleaner and deleted all other files and maps. Reboot. (with both cards still in and DVI connected to HD 4670.)
Then installed the 340.52 driver. When Nvidea does a system check, it does not recognize any compatible hardware. Shutdown.
Take out HD 4670. Startup with DVI connected to GTX 285. No screen and long post beep (vga problem). Hard shutdown with powerbutton.
Put HD 4670 back in and switch places with GTX 285. DVI to HD 4670. Startup. Device manager displays only HD 4670.

I still think you may be getting a conflict somewhere short of a hardware failure with that 285. Again, when dealing with older rigs, AMD and Nvidia do not play nice, especially end of life GPUs. You need to pick the 285 as your single GPU and be done with it.

If you cannot get that 285 to work after all you've done, the other possibility is that it's a bad DVI port on the card. I have had that happen on an old HD 4870 (rare, but it happens). Does the cooling fan spool up on the GPU? I honestly cannot think of anything else, but I've never tried both AMD and Nvidia in the same build.

 

[TorqueR11]

Ok I downloaded the 340.52 driver. Then uninstalled AMD drivers with ccleaner and deleted all other files and maps. Reboot. (with both cards still in and DVI connected to HD 4670.)
Then installed the 340.52 driver. When Nvidea does a system check, it does not recognize any compatible hardware. Shutdown.
Take out HD 4670. Startup with DVI connected to GTX 285. No screen and long post beep (vga problem). Hard shutdown with powerbutton.
Put HD 4670 back in and switch places with GTX 285. DVI to HD 4670. Startup. Device manager displays only HD 4670.

I still think you may be getting a conflict somewhere short of a hardware failure with that 285. Again, when dealing with older rigs, AMD and Nvidia do not play nice, especially end of life GPUs. You need to pick the 285 as your single GPU and be done with it.

If you cannot get that 285 to work after all you've done, the other possibility is that it's a bad DVI port on the card. I have had that happen on an old HD 4870 (rare, but it happens). Does the cooling fan spool up on the GPU? I honestly cannot think of anything else, but I've never tried both AMD and Nvidia in the same build.

Its indeed very confusing and weird. The GPU fan spools up. I've posted on other forums aswell. Thanks for your help, I will figure this out.

 

[hang-the-9]

You got a used card? Did you test it before you bought it?

Does it give a display at all when it's the only card in the system?

It could be your power supply, that is a low quality power supply. Not a lot out there about it, but it's all bad.

 

[TorqueR11]

Thats not yet the solution, sorry. I pressed it accidentaly.

I did not test it before taking it. It could not.

It does not display whatsoever

And it gets power, because lights are green and fan spins.

I tested it on a friends PC whoms MoBo is also compatible but has a bit too little PSU (500) instead of the minimum 550 Watts required. It did not display anything either.

 

[hang-the-9]

Thats not yet the solution, sorry. I pressed it accidentaly.

I did not test it before taking it. It could not.

It does not display whatsoever

And it gets power, because lights are green and fan spins.

I tested it on a friends PC whoms MoBo is also compatible but has a bit too little PSU (500) instead of the minimum 550 Watts required. It did not display anything either.

As long as he had a good quality power supply, I'd lean towards the card being bad. Although your have a low quality power supply, since the card did not work in two systems, bad card is the most likely issue.

 

[TorqueR11]

Well since I bought the card from a 14 year old boy who said he cleaned the card, what realy believed, I disassembled the card my self to see if there was anything odd on the card. There was, one little cube was a bit loose from the top coating of the circuit board. So I thought thats the mystery out of the world xD . The card wasn't expensive so I can live with it.

Thanks for your help everyone!

 

[10tacle]

So were you able to fix it or is it just a dead card now? I've still got an EVGA GTX 275 in an older gaming rig. It overclocks to 285 speeds (bought in summer 2009, had two of them in SLI at one time). All I ever did was blow it out. Maybe the kid learned to not "fix" something if it isn't broken.

 

[TorqueR11]

So were you able to fix it or is it just a dead card now? I've still got an EVGA GTX 275 in an older gaming rig. It overclocks to 285 speeds (bought in summer 2009, had two of them in SLI at one time). All I ever did was blow it out. Maybe the kid learned to not "fix" something if it isn't broken.

Well it turned out that I had bought the wrong molex to pci-e powercable. I bought a single molex to single 6pin pci-e cable. Since I thought that the gtx 285 I bought was broken, I bought an other one for the same price, also second hand. But tbis time theapropiate power cables were given with it. In this card does start up normally. Just plug and play. The cables provided are 2 times: 2 molex to 1 pci-e cables with one of the middle pins left empty. I connected just one of em since I have just 2 pair of molex cables comming from the psu. The other pci-e cable comes directly from the psu. Also I connected the on MoBo exclusive vga molex connector for an extra power source, but maybe it would not be used. It starts without it.

So I broke the previous gtx 285 myself when disassembeling it. Shame. But its solved know.

Thx for the input everyone!