(Code 43) Graphic card refuses to work- URGENT

[Silentsnake]

Hi- I need this fixed urgently as i have design work to do

I was recently doing windows updates when i viewed the optional section (windows 7 and vista users know what im talking about) where there was a new Graphic card driver for my 9800 gx2 this got me all excited as i have been playing COD MW2 and have been having pretty poor FPS to what i was expecting.

Anyways i installed the driver using windows update restarted and tried to run COD where i got an error regarding Directx i tried other games and software which are GFX based- i went into device manager and saw that under display adapters both of my GFX cards (its a GX2) has a yellow ! mark beside it. i right clicked and viewed properties this is the device status message

Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (code 43)

I have tried system restore- which failed first and second time

i have tried uninstalling in safe mode and normal mode and using drive sweeper, just everytime windows starts, its as if it wasnt allowing any changes

i tried installing older drivers and beta drivers

I have now reformated and tried to install with the older drivers but still does not work!!!

Does anyone have any idea as to why my card is doing this? i will test my card in another pc a little later today just to confirm that it is not damaged.

My specs

Q9450

EVGA 780i

4gb 800mhz ram

1200watt coolermaster psu

EVGA 9800 GX2

Windows 7 pro 64bit

Regards and thank you for reading my very long post

SS

EDIT: by the way i have looked into it alot and tried more or less everything except this

http://www.code43.de/page1.html

I have never heard of AGP aperture size and iTS NT GNNA BE IN MY BIOS COS MY BOARD DOESNT SUPPORT AGP- maybe its something different on EVGa mobos hope this helps

 

[Rastalovich]

Code 43 in relation to pci related items, makes me think of the old polling problem u would get with soundcards - where at the point of reporting to the OS what the card was, it was either late in responding or responded b4 the question was asked, if u like.

The was an XP hotfix to download for such issues - however we're not in XP country are we.

I'm looking immediately at the Windows approved drivers that u installed. They're almost never the best drivers for any of the graphic cards they offer themselves for, only drivers that they've tested in-house themselves. Display a screen, some windows functions, nothing to do with non-microsoft games - but should be safe.

Obviously something went wrong there.

I'd goto the Programs section and remove these drivers, and either install ur old drivers or get another set straight from the card website.

I'm hesitant to say download the latest drivers, cos after Win7's release, the 9 series isn't a very beneficial card. U can try them tho. Or an early Win7 version.

 

[Silentsnake]

Code 43 in relation to pci related items, makes me think of the old polling problem u would get with soundcards - where at the point of reporting to the OS what the card was, it was either late in responding or responded b4 the question was asked, if u like.

The was an XP hotfix to download for such issues - however we're not in XP country are we.

I'm looking immediately at the Windows approved drivers that u installed. They're almost never the best drivers for any of the graphic cards they offer themselves for, only drivers that they've tested in-house themselves. Display a screen, some windows functions, nothing to do with non-microsoft games - but should be safe.

Obviously something went wrong there.

I'd goto the Programs section and remove these drivers, and either install ur old drivers or get another set straight from the card website.

I'm hesitant to say download the latest drivers, cos after Win7's release, the 9 series isn't a very beneficial card. U can try them tho. Or an early Win7 version.

Hey rasta thanks for your reply, when you say programs section do you mean going to C:\Nvidia and C:\Program Files\Nvidia

and just deleting these folders?

As i have tried this already and tried older drivers - do you think flashing my GFX bios will solve anything?

 

[Silentsnake]

Small update- ive just installed my dads ATI X1950 pro hopefully i will completely wipe out anythign to do with Nvidia then put in my GX2 and install drivers

hmm... Shall i install with the latest driver or one just before latest?

thanks for any input at all

 

[Silentsnake]

woo finally 500 posts

 

[Youngie1337]

Formatting should of done the job. Reseat the card and remove other PCI cards and then install the drivers. I didn't think this sort of problem happened any more.

 

[Silentsnake]

Formatting should of done the job. Reseat the card and remove other PCI cards and then install the drivers. I didn't think this sort of problem happened any more.

sadly i dont have any othe PCI cards instaled- and i hve tried reseating or using different PCIE slots :/

i dont know the signs of a failed gfx card but is this one of them? :s

 

[Brooksie]

Uninstall drivers, download and use driver cleaner, reinstall drivers direct from nvidia website and see what happens.

 

[Silentsnake]

ok after instaling the ATI x1950 pro and completely wiping everythign to do with nvidia using driver sweeper then puttin the GX2 in and instaling the new driver from nvidia it still isnt working!

so i installed my GX2 into my dads computer using my PSU and voilà...... the same Code 43 on my dads computer meaning that its got to be somthing with the card! ... was kind of hoping it would be my motherboard because it would be a little cheaper to fix

Im gnna see if theres a way to flash my card and see if that works any ideas?

 

[Silentsnake]

hmm... well i ran the flashing software and it doesnt even pick up my graphic card lol! so no im totally out of options!

My GFX card is OEM (i think thats the term used when it came as a whole pc) but i notice EVGA have 10year warrenty on these cards so does that mean im liable to an RMA seing as the company warrenty is over

 

[thestepster]

OEM is usually only a 1 year warranty not sure how evga would deal with a card u got in a machine but its worth a try and give them a bell and see what they say

 

[86sixsix]

If the card/OS is still misbehaving after a reformat... Either the card or the board is slowly dying or somewhere along your travels - *something* has changed in the BIOS' APIC / resource tables and windoze can't deal with the setup now.

Perhaps attempting to fudge it back by:

boot the machine with the ati

shutdown, and put the 9800 in another slot (still with the ati in and it still connected to the primary monitor)

remove all your network adapters

boot up and disable anything unnecessary in the bios...serial ports, firewire, everything.

save and exit and boot windoze - just let it use whatever it finds driver-wise (if it can't find any, don't specify a proper one - specify the standard VGA driver)

The dual-card approach *should* force your board and thus windoze to re-juggle your resources around and it *might* clear the errorcode...

It might not - but it's free to try and it can't hurt any...

EDIT: 'AGP apertures' aren't relevant to your chipset - it was to do with texture sizes and transfers across AGP about 10 years ago... For example: an old 3dmark used to throw a wobbler if it was set too low and it couldn't do the 64MB texture test...

...and if your bios lets you...manually set the resources for *every* slot... Youngie1337 is thinking the same thing I am I reckon...

...and if you get up and running...nvidia vista64 driver 182.50 is a good release to test with - it's the last one that avoids all this twaddle new WDDM1.1 business...