7970 Matrix Platinum - safe mode all the time

[czeslaw]

Hello,

I've run into an issue with my graphic card.
After building my pc, installing windows 8 and drivers my card was flashing green all the time. I discovered that it was connected to Asus EPU engine, what I described here: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?29501-Matrix-Platinum-EPU-Engine&country=&status=

Since then my card was doing perfect. Today I've opened my chassis, removed RAM to try it with different PC, installed it again and now my card is in constant safe mode (led indicator flashing green). GPU Tweak ask me each time after boot to "recover my graphic card" but after boot it's still green !

Please help ....

Can it be that something happened to my psu and now graphic card can't work normally ?
Should I try holding the safe button while pc is booting ? Flashing card's bios ? Resetting the motherboard's bios ?

[desmondwiera]

czeslaw wrote:
I've wrote You PM answering your question.
What do you mean flashing into default? Where did you get the default bios? techpowerup or the link above?

Reply back sir !!! Got the bios from techpowerup. Because i thought the link above is for matrix platinum edition and mine isn't one,so i google it and found the one for non platinum edition.

[czeslaw]

Oh, mine is platinum ! Sorry I missed that 😕 so forget my request for the bios 😛 still keeping my fingers crossed that your matrix will finally go bluish ;]

[desmondwiera]

czeslaw wrote:
Oh, mine is platinum ! Sorry I missed that 😕 so forget my request for the bios 😛 still keeping my fingers crossed that your matrix will finally go bluish ;]

Hahahaha okay... But i will send it to you anyway... Just incase that you'll need it... Gonna take a shower first... Lol

[EllipticDawid25]

no clue 🙂 u shoudl take your pc 2 asus and ask them 🙂

[desmondwiera]

hmm... a little update...
today i'm doing fresh install windows 7.. when re-installing all of my driver and programs and i'm going out for a while, strange thing happen when i came back.. the led is cycling from green - blue - purple - red. and when i move my mouse, it came back to blue again.. somehow like cycling when idle or something.

[Zka17]

desmondwiera wrote:
the led is cycling from green - blue - purple - red. and when i move my mouse, it came back to blue again.. somehow like cycling when idle or something.

LOL, Christmas time?

Never saw that on the Matrix cards...

[czeslaw]

that's bizzare ....

[desmondwiera]

Strange right? Lol
I guess i will live with the U2 for a moment.. Planning to sell this card and move on into 780ti.. Still have 3months to think about this plan.. 🙂

[Holdt]

Hi there.
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[czeslaw]

I have a possible solution I'll try today.

It's based on this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1843379/asus-matrix-280x-aftifacting-boot.html#.

It fits the situation because the card is ok after reflash/clear cmos and then fails after first poweroff.

What I'll do:

- Switch to iGPU / connect only one monitor to intel gpu.
- Try to reflash matrix once again (do not reboot)
- Disable the burn service in msconfig
- Clear cmos / optimized / clear cmos

... and we'll see...