Wanted: High Res Pics, EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 SC 896MB

[banini_jeque]

Edit:

 

I guess I broke my video card by doing something careless.

 

It still works perfectly, just at x8 instead of x16. I'm gonna try to fix it myself, and I have some experience doing SMD work that I was happy with, so I think I can do it. Unfortunately since the resistor on the front there in the second pic is gone, I don't know the ohms, so I'm hoping someone with the same card can help me out or take an extreme closeup so I can read it somehow. The capacitors on the back (if that's what they are - the components missing from circle #2 in the first pic) are gonna be tricky since they don't seem to have a rating written on them. I'm waiting for EVGA to write back and let me know if they can help me with that too. Also I'm not sure if there's supposed to be two of them there, or just one, as on my card, even though there are pads for two, only the solder on one set of pads looks damaged, suggesting that the other set of pads wasn't used.

 

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System Profiler is reporting my GTX 260 as running on x8 lane width. It's in the primary slot. I thought maybe it was because I had an x1 firewire card in the third x16/x8 slot, but I took that out, and System Profiler still shows x8 on my graphics. I'm not doing any SLI or anything, and right now the GTX 260 is the only card in the system. I also can't see anywhere in the bios where it would say what speed it sees there. I'm using C2RC5 with GraphicsEnabler=yes if that tips anyone off.

 

Thanks

 

- Banini

[Jocelyn84]

System Profiler is reporting my GTX 260 as running on x8 lane width. It's in the primary slot. I thought maybe it was because I had an x1 firewire card in the third x16/x8 slot, but I took that out, and System Profiler still shows x8 on my graphics. I'm not doing any SLI or anything, and right now the GTX 260 is the only card in the system. I also can't see anywhere in the bios where it would say what speed it sees there. I'm using C2RC5 with GraphicsEnabler=yes if that tips anyone off.

 

Thanks

 

- Banini

 

I had the same problem with my MSI 480 and it turned out to be the card. I own a Classified, not an SLI 3, but I just put one of my two 260 cards back in and its showing as x16 in system profiler. If you have a windows install, I would download GPU-Z and see if it reports x8 or x16...

[banini_jeque]

I already figured out it's the card... I damaged it somehow. A resistor is broken off on the front, and one or two of what I think are capacitors on the back. There's another component that's half off that I know I can resolder. I've done some other SMD work before and it wasn't too bad. I'm gonna change the topic around to reflect what I've found.