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I have a PNY 6600GT (AGP) which I think is faulty -- it's been locking up in
3D applications
and has now started to do so in 2D, so I've taken it out and reverted to my
old Ti4200, which is now running entirely stably. I'd like to know if
there's any reason why this (now rather elderly) machine shouldn't be able
to run a 6600GT:
Asus A7V-266E
AMD 1600+
350W Antec power supply
512Mb RAM
WD 100Gb HD, CD-RW, DVD drive
Creative Audigy 2
Windows XP SP2, DirectX 9.0c
I've been through a fair amount of troubleshooting with the card I've got.
It would freeze permanently with any sound looping, or crash to a black
screen and monitor off, sometimes to a blue screen and an error message
blaming nv4_disp.dll. I checked all the fans were working, updated every
driver I could think off, tried out lots of different Nvidia driver sets,
tried underclocking, reducing refresh rates, cutting back from AGP 4x to 2X
and turning off fast writes & write combining; checked for malware, stopped
all non-essential background processes I could find, and tried removing
other peripherals, but never solved the problems.
I don't really have any doubt that the card I've got is dodgy, but I would
like to know if I can replace it with the same model, or if this PC just
can't run it stably. Obviously the power supply is one possible issue, but I
would have thought 350W is quite enough for this hardware; I upgraded from
the original 250W power supply, which was always enough, when I bought the
new graphics card.
Thanks for any advice.
Jeremy
I have a PNY 6600GT (AGP) which I think is faulty -- it's been locking up in
3D applications
and has now started to do so in 2D, so I've taken it out and reverted to my
old Ti4200, which is now running entirely stably. I'd like to know if
there's any reason why this (now rather elderly) machine shouldn't be able
to run a 6600GT:
Asus A7V-266E
AMD 1600+
350W Antec power supply
512Mb RAM
WD 100Gb HD, CD-RW, DVD drive
Creative Audigy 2
Windows XP SP2, DirectX 9.0c
I've been through a fair amount of troubleshooting with the card I've got.
It would freeze permanently with any sound looping, or crash to a black
screen and monitor off, sometimes to a blue screen and an error message
blaming nv4_disp.dll. I checked all the fans were working, updated every
driver I could think off, tried out lots of different Nvidia driver sets,
tried underclocking, reducing refresh rates, cutting back from AGP 4x to 2X
and turning off fast writes & write combining; checked for malware, stopped
all non-essential background processes I could find, and tried removing
other peripherals, but never solved the problems.
I don't really have any doubt that the card I've got is dodgy, but I would
like to know if I can replace it with the same model, or if this PC just
can't run it stably. Obviously the power supply is one possible issue, but I
would have thought 350W is quite enough for this hardware; I upgraded from
the original 250W power supply, which was always enough, when I bought the
new graphics card.
Thanks for any advice.
Jeremy