Hello,
Was wondering if anyone had any ideas regarding this issue I'm having.
Previous to my tri sli setup, I was running fine with 2x evga gtx 580 (reference model) in slots 1 & 3 with no problems on the latest nvidia drivers (290.53). Recently I decided to do a trade with a friend and obtained a third gtx 580. The third card is the mis n580 gtx Lightning edition. So the new setup I went to was the 2x evga cards in slots 1 & 2 and the msi in slot 4. After the driver install, I tried running Heaven DX11 Benchmarks, but found that the screen would go black for a few seconds then see the benchmark running on a flickering screen for a couple seconds then the video card fans rev up the go down and the monitors lose signal. The machine is still running after all this and I have to force reboot. I then tried running 3DMark11 with the same results. I then tried running BF3 and the same thing. Oddly, I ran SWTOR and it had no problems. One thing I did notice is if I control alt delete Heaven before the flickering I could then launch the taskmanager then click back into Heaven and it run with no problems, but when I exit the application it would then crash the application (system still running). Immediately I figured it was a driver issue so I ran driver sweeper and reinstalled the drivers but had the same exact results. I decided to then try the 285.62 drivers and had the same end result. I then tried driver version 275.50 and everything worked.
After finding the 275.50 working, I decided to load back up the 290.53 drivers and then tried just running evga evga and evga msi in 2 way sli to see if there was a problem - both worked in slots 1 and 3, however, if I run in 1 and 4 I wouldn't crash but instead get flickering during the above applications mentioned that would normally crash. So I think I isolated the issue to slot 4, however, I don't understand why running the 275.50 drivers would resolve this issue. Again, I'm thinking its a software issue or possibly an issue with the nf200 settings perhaps (don't know much about this technology so not sure where to start here). I also checked out my bios version and got it to the 0902 (recent version) . One thing I did notice was my chipset is set to 9.2.0.1016 instead of what is on the website 9.2.0.1030 - but when I try to install the newer version the setup says it installed successfully but I don't see the change in device manager. One other thing I figure I should mention is my PSU is the ax1200 watt gold rated corsair which from my understanding should be sufficient for tri sli.
I was hoping someone might have an idea how to fix this or where I should be looking because I'm out of ideas. If you need more info I can provide it. All help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jonspad