SLI Gtx 580 issue

Hi everyone,
As the title says, I have 2 GTX 580 in SLI, both are MSI twin frozr II.
I bought the first 580 in april, it worked perfectly so I took the other one in (OC Edition) last month (mostly for BF3 :D)
Everything seem to work fine, at least almost.
Sometimes, I get BSoD, in game, but also when I'm on the web or starting the computer.
I tried to "invert" the cards, and I've found that the problem was coming from the 2nd GTX 580.
When pluggin the screen on it (2nd GTX 580), I've had things appearing. I couln't take a photo, but I've found one that has the same things:
I tried to uninstall completely the Nvidia driver, reinstall the WHQL version, the Beta version, but this problem still happens.
Do you have any idea how to fix this problem?
Or does that mean that the 2nd GTX 580 is "defective"?
Since the problem isn't happening all the time, can I still send the card back to where I bought it for a "replacement"? (if defective), I feel like they'll find no problem with it, and send it back :/
My computer specs:
Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD65
CPU: Intel core i5 2500k, cooler: Hyper 212+ (But ot OC for the moment)
Power Supply: Cooler master Silent Pro 1000W
Hard Drive: SSD OCZ vertex 3 120gb + 1 To Caviar Black
RAM: 4 x 2 Go G.Skill Kit Extreme3 PC10600 Ripjaws X CAS8
Case: HAF 912

Actually, I did that yesterday, that's another thing I've completely forgotten to tell :S sorry.
Well, I didn't know if I could flash when the two cards were connected at the same time, so I removed the 1st card (oldest, N580GTX Twin Frozr II) downloaded the bios file NV255MS.104.zip and flashed the 2nd card (N580GTX Twin Frozr II/OC). After this was done, I did the same thing for the first GTX, bios file NV255MS.111.zip.
This afternoon, I still had 2 BSoD, one in game, the 2nd occured when the computer rebooted (didn't have time to get to the desktop -> BSoD)
Should I re-flash the vbios, but now with the 2 cards connected and bridge put on? If Yes, wich bios file should I take?
Anyway, thanks a lot for you help ^^

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i'm sorry my english is bad, i'm from indonesia

Quote from: trumengan on 02-November-11, 18:36:48
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i'm sorry my english is bad, i'm from indonesia
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Hi everyone!
I have a few questions if you guys don't mind answering them, first thing though to make it clear this system is not built yet but the build will start soon.
My first question is whether or not this PSU is capable of running two GTX 580 Twin Frozr/OC in SLI:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139015&Tpk=AX850
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I'm looking at the picture right now and it looks like the bridge that comes with the motherboard is not long enough, any suggestions on where to buy one?
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I didn't mean the Watts I mean the Amps, from other threads in this board it seems that some PSU's aren't up to the task of supplying the card with enough Amps, I was wondering if that PSU could supply enough for both.
Well you can figure from the graph
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adding second the same VGA to the system drains total 719W
So 719-447=272W, 272W/12=23A, 42A+23A=65A
or simple 719/12=60A
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He replaced the board with new one Asus P8P67 Pro and still doesn't works on-board led shows VGA init error.
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The MSI's GTX 580 Lightning worked fine in meantime with the same PSU [he also tested with different one and it works fine with both PSU's on 3th board] on 3th different mainboard.
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83 is normal for msi twin frozr 2
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After 1 hour game the 1st one is above 80° and the 2nd one 70°..
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Quote from: Svet on 22-August-11, 03:31:24
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No I haven't. I didn't even think of that. I always go for the official nvidia drivers. I'm downloading it now.
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NVIDIA slightly revised their display controller for GF110/GTX580; the good news is that HDMI 1.4a is supported, the bad news is that full audio bitstreaming is not supported so it’s the same as it was on the GTX 480: 8 channel LPCM and lossy audio formats like DD+ and DTS. This actually caught us off-guard since we were expecting the full GF104 treatment here, but it just goes to show that this is a GF100-derrivative after all. Unfortunately this also extends to the number of displays supported – NVIDIA still only supports 2 displays on one card, so you need to run in SLI if you intend to take advantage of 3DVision/NVIDIA surround across 3 monitors.
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Why is the kernel getting 304.60 ? That's got to be the issue, but I don't why the kernel is getting 304.60 ...
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I think what he is saying,
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