GTX285 running at PCI-E 2.0 16x @ x4 help needed.

[chispy]

Guys i have a problem and i would like some help to fix an issue with a GTX285. Ok here goes the story , this is a BFG OCX GTX285 1GB Rev.1 , i bought this card the first day they came out so its already quite old. The card its volt moded via vid bridges pins and i have conected them via solder to get 1.3v. its been like that for over a year now. This card was completely dead after a long LN2 session months ago, but i was going thru my big pile of dead hardware and i thought of re-testing the card before going to the trashcan, i cleaned all the sticky armaflex on the back and front of the card as much as i could , i removed the clear coat of nail polish that i applied to the card too as well as all the vaseline on the card. The card was looking like brand new after been hooked to a TeK 9 gpu pot for 5~6 months , i clean it up really good . I use MX2 on the core and the same pading that came from factory for the memory , installed the stock cooler and place the card on an old Asus P5B Deluxe P965 Mobo and voila , Bingo , woow the card post it right away and came back from the death , boot into windows and i installed latest whql drivers 197.13 rebbot and awsome the card its working flawlesly im happy until i opened GPU-Z and oh sh*t the card its running at pci-e 16 @ 1x , i reset it the card , uninstalled and reinstalled drivers again , i boot in windows and now the card its running at pci-e 16 @ 4x ,i said to myself well its a software problem and here i went flashing the card with an evga FTW Bios wich runs aboslutly great on this card , flash was done succesfully. re-tried the card again with new Bios and guess what the card still running at pci-e 16 4x. I tested in another mobo eVGA 790i Ultra and yep you guessed it right the freaking card its running at pci-e 16 @ 4x. I have troubleshoot until not available but i cannot get the card to run at the full pci-e 16 @ 16x. Please help this poor soul out , im getting frustrated because the card runs flawlessly in games and overclocks like crazy and stable for benchies even on stock cooler , but the results are very low because the card its been bottleneck by the pci-e 16 running all the time at pci-e 16 @ 4x , any ideas , help , guidance will be trully appreciated , i would like to fix this card to use it in my 24/7 gaming rig. Thanks in advanced.


Regards: Chispy








By chispy at 2010-04-02

[pr@$r1g]

Buddy clean ur pci-e slot of mobo with ear-bud with little isotope & let it dry ... check again if it works @ x16

Clean the pci-e pins of ur GFX card with rubber .....

[thebluemeanie1]

The only thing I can think of is try cleaning the PCI Express connector. I would think rubbing alcohol would work nicely.

[chispy]

Thanks for the feedback guys , cleaned already both the pci-e slots on both mobos with alcohol and the card pci-e pins with rubber and with alcohol , still running at x4 . appreciated the help.

[IvanG]

spray with contacs cleaner ur pcie slot , let it dry . or leave ur mobo with out de battery few hours

[chispy]

spray with contacs cleaner ur pcie slot , let it dry . or leave ur mobo with out de battery few hours

Thanks for the tips , appreciated.

Buen Dia

[chispy]

Thank you guys for trying to help , i appretiated much. I have fixed the card , it was an easy fix. Heres how i did it:



By chispy at 2010-04-04

By chispy, shot with FinePix A340 at 2010-04-04

By chispy, shot with FinePix A340 at 2010-04-04

[Blackstare]

Loool, you should look up for some anger management courses dude xD, altough I did the same with a mobo some days ago, it feels great.

[NaMcO]

It did say "PLAY HARD" on the card...

[Musho]

Such a waste. Although the performance at 4x isn't top notch, I'm sure it would be an upgrade for quite a few people on a tight budget. I'm not one of them, but there are many people who don't have enough money to spend in a GPU upgrade. You could have made someone extremely happy, or maybe even made some money on it if you wanted to.

[IvanG]

now when ur new VC arrives and this pci still showing at 4x , what woukd you do or feel? will hit yourself with that hammer ???? OMG

[fatguy1992]

Well that was stupid.

[OC Maximus]

WOW, I've been contemplating doing the same exact thing but to my motherboard.

Slot 1 is running at x1 vs x16 with one card and x1/x8 with 2 cards in vs x8/x8. Can't even go into crossfire due to the x1 issue.

Here is the tread: Crossfire Stopped Working

[quintus]

And i only have a 4mb s3 virge