6600GT problems

[Chris]

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Hi,

I've just upgraded my Radeon 9500 Pro to a Gigabyte 6600GT
(GV-N66T128VP) and I'm having serious problems. Windows works fine but
as soon as I try and run a high powered game e.g. HL2 it plays for a
little while (albeat a bit choppy), minute or two, before textures
start getting corrupted and then it locks up. After this I can still
return to the desktop.

My system setup is as follows :-
Gigabyte 7DXR Motherboard
Enermax 350W PSU (17A on +12V rail)
Athlon XP2400+ with stock HS/Fan (266Mhz FSB)
3x256Mb PC2100 ECC Ram (768Mb total)
Maxtor DiamondMax 9 160Gb hard disk (7200rpm)
Maxtor(Quantum) Fireball 40Gb (7200rpm)
Lite-on CD-RW 52x
Matsushita 6x DVD-ROM
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value
Belkin USB2.0 PCI card
3COM 100/10 Network PCI Card

I thought it might be a power issue as I have quite a bit of stuff in
there, so I disconnected the second hard drive, floppy and the CD/DVD
drives, and still didn't have much luck, although it appeared to run
for a couple of minutes longer

I thought it might be a temperature thing as this card has no fan, just
a big heat sink with heat pipes. With the case all closed up and
everything connected the temp idled at about 60C and after running HL2
until it crashed, the temp had gone up to ab 75C. So I opened up the
case and pointed a big desk fan at the PC innards, repeated the test
with most of the kit disconnected as above and HL2 apeared to run a
little longer, but only by a minute or two. The temperatures with this
setup were 50C idle rising to about 55C after running HL2.

I've just done a fresh install of windows and everything so havn't
tested much else 3D wise, though a 3d Demo from nVidia ran really
really slow and 3d Mark 05 was very slow when benchmarking (but did
complete), however it crashed trying to run the demo mode.

Does anyone have any ideas where to go from here, I thought PSU but its
a pretty good Enermax with 17A on the 12V rail and I would have thought
that if this was the problem then disconnecting most stuff would solve
it but it didn't. Does anyone know of any issues with the 7DXR
motherboard??

Please help...

 

[Andrew]

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On 13 Jul 2005 01:24:32 -0700, "Chris" <chrism2001uk@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>I've just upgraded my Radeon 9500 Pro to a Gigabyte 6600GT
>(GV-N66T128VP) and I'm having serious problems. Windows works fine but
>as soon as I try and run a high powered game e.g. HL2 it plays for a
>little while (albeat a bit choppy), minute or two, before textures
>start getting corrupted and then it locks up. After this I can still
>return to the desktop.

Have you plugged a power lead into the card?
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[Guest]

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Chris wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just upgraded my Radeon 9500 Pro to a Gigabyte 6600GT
>(GV-N66T128VP) and I'm having serious problems. Windows works fine but
>as soon as I try and run a high powered game e.g. HL2 it plays for a
>little while (albeat a bit choppy), minute or two, before textures
>start getting corrupted and then it locks up. After this I can still
>return to the desktop.
>

If they don't have a diagnostic, RMA and send it back for a better brand
(My ASUS is performing flawlessly *knock on forehead*).

If they do have a diagnostic, use it, and expect to have to RMA and send
it back for a better brand (stay awa from MSI *spit*).

Make sure every card you get from now on has a fan. Those are no longer
optional. For that matter, make sure your mobo has a chipset fan. And
while you're at it, do you have heatsinks on your RAM?

It's mostly about heat these days. You start putting in those 400 - 600
w power supplies, you are pouring that power Into something, and it
comes out as heat. I for one no longer run a computer with a closed
case. I have a 6" clipon fan on the hutch next to the case, blowing
into it from 10" away, and I still check the temps once in a while.
Before I will do any overclocking I intend to get an old refridgerator
($45 at a yard sale) and put the machine in there (no kidding, run it at
about 60 degrees F, with a pan of silicate crystals in there to absorb
excess moisture, swapping that out every day or so).

--
Godwin is a net-nazi

 

[Chris]

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To answer the questions posted, yes I have plugged in the power cable,
with the cable plugged in I have never seen the warning popup saying
there isn't enough power to the card. I tried unplugging the power
cable and immediately after reboot, the nVidia sentinel popped up to
say there wasn't enough power.

I would have thought if it was a power issue then the unplugging of all
my other hardware would have shown a change, unless I'm seriously
underpowered, but the Enermax 350W PSU with 18A on the 12V line doesn't
seem too bad. I'm not against changing PSU but I don't want to through
money at a high power (and relatively expensive) PSU if its not going
to fix the problem.

I do have a fan on my chipset, but I must admit that my case does run
quite hot as the air flow isn't great, but with the side off and a desk
fan blowing air directly on the Graphics card it only lowered the temp
to about 55C. I also have a PCI air blower right next to the card as I
thought this might assist the cooling.

I did a bit more testing and installed Jedi knight : Jedi Academy.
Which ran flawlessly, I tied an earlier level on HL2 and it did run
better for a little while before crashing to the desktop with a DX
error. Also ran the HL2 timedemo which completed ok and rather
disappointingly gave me exactly the same frame rate as my old Radeon
9500Pro.

I'm starting to wonder if this is the problem with the motherboard
chipset, does anyone have any further details as to which chipsets are
affected or any direct experience with my motherboard (gigabyte 7DXR)
and this card. My chipset is :-

AMD761 Memory/PCI/AGP controller
VIA VT82C686B PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)

Do you think swapping out the MB would help? It is a bit long in the
tooth but I was thinking of delaying this until I did a major upgrade.

 

[Tony]

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On 13 Jul 2005 01:24:32 -0700, "Chris" <chrism2001uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just upgraded my Radeon 9500 Pro to a Gigabyte 6600GT
>(GV-N66T128VP) and I'm having serious problems. Windows works fine but
>as soon as I try and run a high powered game e.g. HL2 it plays for a
>little while (albeat a bit choppy), minute or two, before textures
>start getting corrupted and then it locks up. After this I can still
>return to the desktop.
>
>My system setup is as follows :-
>Gigabyte 7DXR Motherboard
>Enermax 350W PSU (17A on +12V rail)
>Athlon XP2400+ with stock HS/Fan (266Mhz FSB)
>3x256Mb PC2100 ECC Ram (768Mb total)
>Maxtor DiamondMax 9 160Gb hard disk (7200rpm)
>Maxtor(Quantum) Fireball 40Gb (7200rpm)
>Lite-on CD-RW 52x
>Matsushita 6x DVD-ROM
>Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value
>Belkin USB2.0 PCI card
>3COM 100/10 Network PCI Card
>
>I thought it might be a power issue as I have quite a bit of stuff in
>there, so I disconnected the second hard drive, floppy and the CD/DVD
>drives, and still didn't have much luck, although it appeared to run
>for a couple of minutes longer
>
>I thought it might be a temperature thing as this card has no fan, just
>a big heat sink with heat pipes. With the case all closed up and
>everything connected the temp idled at about 60C and after running HL2
>until it crashed, the temp had gone up to ab 75C. So I opened up the
>case and pointed a big desk fan at the PC innards, repeated the test
>with most of the kit disconnected as above and HL2 apeared to run a
>little longer, but only by a minute or two. The temperatures with this
>setup were 50C idle rising to about 55C after running HL2.
>
>I've just done a fresh install of windows and everything so havn't
>tested much else 3D wise, though a 3d Demo from nVidia ran really
>really slow and 3d Mark 05 was very slow when benchmarking (but did
>complete), however it crashed trying to run the demo mode.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas where to go from here, I thought PSU but its
>a pretty good Enermax with 17A on the 12V rail and I would have thought
>that if this was the problem then disconnecting most stuff would solve
>it but it didn't. Does anyone know of any issues with the 7DXR
>motherboard??
>
>Please help...



You do need a Bigger PSU, Enermax 485W is what I am using, and on cold
mornings on boot up, I get a Nvidia Warning of not enough power and that has
2 x 18A +12v lines..



Be very careful with the Fan less GF 6600GT, you do need lots of case fans to
keep it cool, the Reviews do not like them as they got to hot.

Plus you Must read the Temp while its running, use RivaTuner to do that as
it has a Monitor.


Their is Also problems with VIA & SIS chipset MoBo's with the GF 6600GT

 

[Guest]

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Chris wrote:
> To answer the questions posted, yes I have plugged in the power cable,
> with the cable plugged in I have never seen the warning popup saying
> there isn't enough power to the card. I tried unplugging the power
> cable and immediately after reboot, the nVidia sentinel popped up to
> say there wasn't enough power.
>
> I would have thought if it was a power issue then the unplugging of all
> my other hardware would have shown a change, unless I'm seriously
> underpowered, but the Enermax 350W PSU with 18A on the 12V line doesn't
> seem too bad. I'm not against changing PSU but I don't want to through
> money at a high power (and relatively expensive) PSU if its not going
> to fix the problem.
>
> I do have a fan on my chipset, but I must admit that my case does run
> quite hot as the air flow isn't great, but with the side off and a desk
> fan blowing air directly on the Graphics card it only lowered the temp
> to about 55C. I also have a PCI air blower right next to the card as I
> thought this might assist the cooling.
>
> I did a bit more testing and installed Jedi knight : Jedi Academy.
> Which ran flawlessly, I tied an earlier level on HL2 and it did run
> better for a little while before crashing to the desktop with a DX
> error. Also ran the HL2 timedemo which completed ok and rather
> disappointingly gave me exactly the same frame rate as my old Radeon
> 9500Pro.
>
> I'm starting to wonder if this is the problem with the motherboard
> chipset, does anyone have any further details as to which chipsets are
> affected or any direct experience with my motherboard (gigabyte 7DXR)
> and this card. My chipset is :-
>
> AMD761 Memory/PCI/AGP controller
> VIA VT82C686B PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)
>
> Do you think swapping out the MB would help? It is a bit long in the
> tooth but I was thinking of delaying this until I did a major upgrade.
>
that is a very old chipset, make sure it can support 1.5v AGP slots,
that could be part of the problem. Also, make sure you reload the AGP
VGart driver for that chipset after you install the new video driver.
make sure the old radeon driver is completely gone too.