NVidia 6600 crashing my machine.
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I had a mishap with my old card (128mb Nvidia Ti-4200) so i replaced it with an Nvidia 6200 (256mb) which gave me all kinds of grief /errors/ crashing etc.
I decided it must be a bad card so i upgraded to a nvidia 6600 (also 256 mb), formatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows for good measure and have the same problem with the new card.
It can't be a compatability thing with Nvidia and my chipset as my original card was Nvidia and the machine worked great.
When i try and run games with the new card, it loads up the game, shows me the opening screen and then locks up / reboots the machine. Sometimes after the reboot it will then run the game, but not at the kind of detail I would expect, it won't let me do anything above 1280 x 1024, which my old card would do with no problems.
The 3d bench marking software i used to use will sometimes run, but not well, ussually it freezes intermittently or crashes altogether, sometimes it just throws up and error message about my display adaptor and does not start at all until after a reboot.
I have tried various drivers for the card.
My system is :
AMD XP2500
768 mbs of ram, but i have tried it with 256 / 512 mbs to weed out any conflicts and there does not seem to be much difference even though i think the ram is slightly different.
XP Pro SP2
Nvidia 6600
Unfortunately my PC vendor is not interested as my 2 month old PC works with its on board graphics but not with my card. The people I brought the card from tell me it muct be a PC problem etc etc.
If any one could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful!
I decided it must be a bad card so i upgraded to a nvidia 6600 (also 256 mb), formatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows for good measure and have the same problem with the new card.
It can't be a compatability thing with Nvidia and my chipset as my original card was Nvidia and the machine worked great.
When i try and run games with the new card, it loads up the game, shows me the opening screen and then locks up / reboots the machine. Sometimes after the reboot it will then run the game, but not at the kind of detail I would expect, it won't let me do anything above 1280 x 1024, which my old card would do with no problems.
The 3d bench marking software i used to use will sometimes run, but not well, ussually it freezes intermittently or crashes altogether, sometimes it just throws up and error message about my display adaptor and does not start at all until after a reboot.
I have tried various drivers for the card.
My system is :
AMD XP2500
768 mbs of ram, but i have tried it with 256 / 512 mbs to weed out any conflicts and there does not seem to be much difference even though i think the ram is slightly different.
XP Pro SP2
Nvidia 6600
Unfortunately my PC vendor is not interested as my 2 month old PC works with its on board graphics but not with my card. The people I brought the card from tell me it muct be a PC problem etc etc.
If any one could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful!
cheers guys.
Yes, there is an extra power socket on the Nvidia and it is plugged in...although i didn't notice it at first , the software immediately warned me that there was insufficient power until i plugged it in.
The power supply is a 400 watt jobby, do i really need a bigger one?
Added: And yes, it was a cheapo bare bones system that i have added more ram and a slightly better processor to, so maybe it just needs a better 400 watt supply rather than a bigger one?
>> Edited by hedders on Tuesday 8th November 21:56
Yes, there is an extra power socket on the Nvidia and it is plugged in...although i didn't notice it at first , the software immediately warned me that there was insufficient power until i plugged it in.
The power supply is a 400 watt jobby, do i really need a bigger one?
Added: And yes, it was a cheapo bare bones system that i have added more ram and a slightly better processor to, so maybe it just needs a better 400 watt supply rather than a bigger one?
>> Edited by hedders on Tuesday 8th November 21:56
rebelstar said:
I have one of these cards. The PC was freezing a lot in both Windows and Linux (so I know it wasn't the OS). In the end I swapped the existing 350W PSU for a big 600W one. Although it still freezes once in a while , it's sufficiently rare that I can enjoy playing games again.
Ta for that!
I Can pick up one of those tomorrow.
hedders said:
Added: And yes, it was a cheapo bare bones system that i have added more ram and a slightly better processor to, so maybe it just needs a better 400 watt supply rather than a bigger one?
As you say, a good quality on is what you require. I have an Enermax 460W running 2 optical drives, 4 HDs, an Athlon and a Radeon 9800 Pro (quite a power hungry card).
I also have a display on the front of my PC which shows the voltages of the supply and even with the above load, they are stable at 5.05V and 12.10V.
malman said:
Well another thing you cant usually run differnt ram cards.. they have to be teh same e.g 256/512, you cant run 256 and 512. they usually run adjasent... As for your card its NVidia thats your prob.
*cough*
Don't they teach you to spell anymore?!
And wtf is a ram card? Perhaps you mean sticks of ram, in which case you're wrong. You can run different sized sticks easily. And iirc, hes already eliminated that problem...
xiphias said:
Well another thing you cant usually run differnt ram cards.. they have to be teh same e.g 256/512, you cant run 256 and 512. they usually run adjasent... As for your card its NVidia
*cough*
Don't they teach you to spell anymore?!
And wtf is a ram card? Perhaps you mean sticks of ram, in which case you're wrong. You can run different sized sticks easily. And iirc, hes already eliminated that problem...
Errr, i have been told otherwise about the ram
so that makes you wrongand my tv's better than yours.., IIRC you cannot run different ram as they run parralell?!? No, they dont teach us to spell anymore as i went to a shit school where in my last year i didnt have one proper teacher all year...
so keep the petty comments to yourself.
TimW said:
Well another thing you cant usually run differnt ram cards.. they have to be teh same e.g 256/512, you cant run 256 and 512. they usually run adjasent... As for your card its NVidia
*cough*
Don't they teach you to spell anymore?!
And wtf is a ram card? Perhaps you mean sticks of ram, in which case you're wrong. You can run different sized sticks easily. And iirc, hes already eliminated that problem...
Errr, i have been told otherwise about the ram
No, they dont teach us to spell anymore as i went to a shit school where in my last year i didnt have one proper teacher all year...
If that's sarcasm, tis a poor attempt. And you can run different sticks, mainly because my brothers pc is doing so atm
And your tv is better? WTF And omg he stuck his finger up at me. And without being difficult, I could spell adjacent by the age of 11. Sorry for possible thread hijack, and being slightly childish.
rsvmilly said:
Back in the days of Pentium (1) you had to add memory in identical pairs (SIMMS)
Ever since the advent of DIMMS (P2 onwards) you can add memory one stick at a time.
The only time you need matching pairs is if you are looking to make use of dual channel memory mainboards
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