Red light on GTX295

[Sider]

Having a weird issue.

Today I was playing COD MW2 and when I quit the game my monitor shut off. It seemed like the rest of the comp was still on. So I powered off and tried to restart and it would get to the windows start screen and the monitor would shut down. I tried this a couple times before I noticed the normally green light on my GTX295 (dual pcb) was red.

Usually when I run into any weird shit like this I back off of my OC. I set everything back to defaults and the comp boots up fine. Take note that I had no OC on the vid card just the system. Everytime I go back to my system OC I get the red light again.

Doing a little digging around and found several places stating that the red light is either due to overheat or a bad psu. The card is definitely not overheating and I can't hardly believe my HX1000 would be going bad on me.

Anybody have any ideas or things I could try testing?

[ballz0r]

loose power connector?

seems strange that the problem comes back with overclocking tho...

[ablatman]

loose power connector?

Or maybe one of the transformers in his HX1000 is fucking up? Make sure that they're both on the same rail, and then if they are, switch them to cables off the OTHER rail. IIRC, the four modular cables are on one rail, and the non-modular cables are off the other...

[Floyd]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=106923&stc=1&d=1282517148

I know its a link to XS but its the power diagram for the HX1000W

[Stoneyman]

I would get a meter and check your PSU.

[Floyd]

Agree, Meter them out.
For what its worth ive had one HX1000W fail on me. Im on my second now and its going strong.

[Sider]

Thanks all.

I'll try switching to the secondary pci-e cables and see what happens.

I've already put a meter on it and voltages all seem correct and solid. Although, I only checked at stock speeds. I wanted to be able to put it under a load while checking.

I really hope this psu isn't bad. Pretty sure I voided the warranty when I changed out the fan when the original went bad.

[ablatman]

Pretty sure I voided the warranty when I changed out the fan when the original went bad.

Why didn't you just RMA it then?

[Sider]

Why didn't you just RMA it then?

Didn't feel like waiting around a couple weeks for something I could do in a couple a minutes. In hindsight it may not have been one of my better decisions. :(

So, switching to the secondary pci-e cables seems to have solved the issue...for now. Does that mean that that rail is/has gone bad?