Garbage on GTX 580m

Hey Guys, after playing for some minutes with a slightly overclocked 580m, my screen suddenly became black and the laptop restarted. After the restart, a lot of exclamations symbols appeared for some ms before the windows logo, and, after booting up, the resolution was set on 800*600(can set it to FHD thou), device manager was giving Code43 on the 580m, right clicking the desktop will not show the Nvidia control panel, and starting it would just simply made it crash.

I have already tried installing previous drivers (was 34x.xx, now on 338.xx), formatting clean and non clean, but it not getting fixed. Is there is still something software side that I can do to fix it, or should I just try to reset and/or clean the GPU?

Thanks.

 

Looks like a fried 580M to me... try reseating it but yeah, time to get a 680M/780M..

 

As I said in other thread, I'm selling my current SLI680. They work like a champ! MP if you are interested

 

UPDATE!

Some backstory first:
- Laptop was sold as single GTX 580m.
- Found second GTX 580m (and SLI cable) when first opened, but wasnt recognized by BIOS.
- Left that GPU untouched, however, second 580m malfunctioned after playing some hours (Showing garbage, error 43... see this thread OP).
- Using iGPU until yesterday.

So I finally tried to do something about the two dead 580m inside the laptop, and, somehow, I manage to revive both cards just by cleaning, repasting, and swapping them. Now both cards seem to be working, can install drivers, both are recognized by BIOS, and it give me the option to change to SLI. However, I am a bit skeptical about them working fine after all those troubles they gave me before. Some stuff I noticed.

- Battery wont charge on PEG nor in SG.
- Games run worse than iGPU.
- Enabling SLI causes both cards to show error 43 until I reinstall drivers (disables SLI).

I am assuming that the first two problems are due to me still using the 240w that was given to me with the laptop, but not sure about the third one. Here are the readings that HwInfo64 shows while in PEG mode with SLI disabled, which seems to favor GPU 1 instead of 0 in data displayed (maybe GPU 0 is still faulty?).

Are these cards really working now or should I try to not overdo them (I do not play any GPU intensive games anymore, just emulators). I am receiving my 330w adapter this Saturday, will update the thread then.

Thanks in advance.

 

Might be a short on the bracket - you might want to investigate:

[Guide] Curing Shorted Support Plate - GTX 580M (Error Code 43 - Revision FF error)

 

That seems really similar to my problem, except that I do not get garbage when enabling SLI. Here are the screens from both cards as shown in GPU-Z, also I have noticed that the nvidia drivers crashes and restart successfully when opening some programs (only happens the first time). So far only SVP Manager and GPU-Z (also takes some second when switching between GPU shown) have done that. Anyway, I will try the solution from that topic once I get my 330w adapter.

Thanks.

 

Did the 330W help any at all?

 

Ya, it solved the battery not charging issue, however, the 580m that was giving garbage ended up being faulty as many people said. After one week with the 330W adapter I left the laptop downloading something all night, however, I found the laptop completely dead after I woke up. I removed both 580m (which were burned) and managed to turn it on with the iGPU and, later, I added a 7970m which have being working fine since then.

 

Yeah. The GTX 580m was a horrendous nightmare.

Good to know that the 7970m works with 17X R3. Do you know if 3D functiions work with 7970m?

 

In my experience, 580m was an awesome card, but you get good and bad in every gpu.......especially 7970m's

 

Both the 7970m and 580m are considered terrible cards in the sense of failure rates.

Anyway, I actually have a M18x R1, not a M17x R3 However, the 3D clocks and applications work just fine with the card. I later had a problem where the CPU's VRM that are located in the motherboard burned and took some of the Mobo with it, however, I managed to replace those chips successfully some weeks after that. I havent had any other problems after that... for now at least.