Need help with troubleshooting

[dirtydogofdeath]

Gentlemen,

I built a new computer last week, and the only problem I've had is that my second (PCI slot 2) Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC has an error on it when viewed under "Devices and Printers". The error reads "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported errors (Code 43)."

The one card works great, but I'm clearly not seeing the benefits of SLI in games, and the SLI enable/disable option does not show up under the Nvidia Control Panel.

Nothing is overclocked (yet). I've tried re-reading the motherboard and video card manuals, surfing forums, reseating the card, checking all of the attachments, reinstalling the drivers using the Control Panel uninstall and the Nvidia driver setup. I've tried disabling the HD Audio entries under system devices (hoping it was an IRQ conflict). Still have the issue.

Any input / help would be greatly appreciated. Tomorrow I plan on taking the cards out and testing each one singly to rule out hardware error (which I think is unlikely, but hey...). After that I guess I'll go through some of the more arcane and suspect practices of installing one card, the drivers, the second card, etc.

System Specs:

Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 (Onboard LAN, Onboard Creative 7.1)

Intel i7-2600K

Corsair H100 LC

Corsair HX1050 PSU

Kingston HyperX 1600 (8GB)

2x GTX 580 SOC (Gigabyte)

2x Nforce 60GB SSD (Raid 0)

WD Cavair Black 2TB

Win7x64

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[S_I_N]

What the Code 43 Error Is

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

Code 43 can be summarized in two words: driver problem. Code 43 is an error specific to the Windows Device Manager and is a clear indicator that there are errors with the driver of the offending device. A Code 43 error is generated due to errors reported by the driver itself meaning that this error is a software problem. The error could mean many things including corruption or misconfiguration but the real cause of a Code 43 error is very uncertain. A Code 43 error is produced when the driver reports an error but is not specific about the exact nature of the problem.

It's not uncommon for device drivers to produce errors but it's important to examine why these errors can be detrimental to the health and performance of your computer. Drivers are extremely important: Each individual hardware device has its own driver that provides the instructions for operation and allows for the hardware device to communicate with other hardware devices and the Windows operating system. Drivers are compatibility: Without drivers, hardware devices would not be able to be fully recognized by Windows and would not be able to function at all.

The exact cause of Code 43 errors is uncertain and possible factors range all over the common causes for nearly all other device manager errors. Code 43 is, simply put, a warning that something is not right with the offending driver.

 

[dirtydogofdeath]

Thanks S_I_N!

I already read that bit in my research, and as noted above have tried reinstalling the drivers a couple of times. Note that this is a clean install of Windows with the drivers newly applied. I'm on 285.62 currently, and am reluctant to go to older versions as I am currently playing BF3.

I'll go ahead and use Driver Sweeper or another utility tomorrow to remove the existing drivers and try again, but I suspect this won't help.

Anyone else?

 

[S_I_N]

IIRC there was an sli patch not long ago that might help ya