I'm experiencing strange problems with my new 8600gts videocard, and I suspect it comes from my mobo's PCI-E 4x port.
when playing some games, misplaced polygons randomly appear : in UT2004, the weapon sometimes becomes a weird mass of polygons. same thing for asteroids in Darkstar One, and for the Canyon Flight test in 3dmark 05/06 (the flying ship is corrupted). Most other games run fine.
Mouse cursors also gets corrupted in most 3D apps/games.
the other issue I have is video playback/editing causing random crashes. The computer sometimes freezes/reboots when playing/editing videos. when a reboot occurs, there's a BSOD, but it appears too briefly to read it. The error is reported in the event log as a System Error (error ID = 1003... unfortunately, this ID is undocumented in MS database)
Since these issues appeared when I changed my radeon x600SE for the 8600gts, I suspected a faulty videocard...
I decided to test it on a friend's computer (Asus P5B, E6600, 1GB DDR2, 480W PSU) and everything ran fine.
Here are my complete specs :
case : Antec NSK 4000
MB : Asrock 775 Dual VSTA
CPU : C2D E6300 @ stock
RAM : 2x512MB Samsung DDR2-666
PSU : Akasa PaxPower 500W
GPU : Twintech GF8600gts (NV reference design, driver version 158.22)
HDD : Seagate 7200.10 320GB sata2 16MB (ST3320620AS)
OS : Win XP Pro SP2
all temps OK, voltages OK. system perfectly stable (except in the case described above) even during intensive 3dsmax rendering.
I know this mobo has trouble handling High-end graphics cards like 8800gts/gtx because of it's PCI-E 4x port, but I haven't heard of such issues with mid-range cards...
so if anyone has an idea about it, or has experienced the same kind of problems, please give me feedback. Thx.
when playing some games, misplaced polygons randomly appear : in UT2004, the weapon sometimes becomes a weird mass of polygons. same thing for asteroids in Darkstar One, and for the Canyon Flight test in 3dmark 05/06 (the flying ship is corrupted). Most other games run fine.
Mouse cursors also gets corrupted in most 3D apps/games.
the other issue I have is video playback/editing causing random crashes. The computer sometimes freezes/reboots when playing/editing videos. when a reboot occurs, there's a BSOD, but it appears too briefly to read it. The error is reported in the event log as a System Error (error ID = 1003... unfortunately, this ID is undocumented in MS database)
Since these issues appeared when I changed my radeon x600SE for the 8600gts, I suspected a faulty videocard...
I decided to test it on a friend's computer (Asus P5B, E6600, 1GB DDR2, 480W PSU) and everything ran fine.
Here are my complete specs :
case : Antec NSK 4000
MB : Asrock 775 Dual VSTA
CPU : C2D E6300 @ stock
RAM : 2x512MB Samsung DDR2-666
PSU : Akasa PaxPower 500W
GPU : Twintech GF8600gts (NV reference design, driver version 158.22)
HDD : Seagate 7200.10 320GB sata2 16MB (ST3320620AS)
OS : Win XP Pro SP2
all temps OK, voltages OK. system perfectly stable (except in the case described above) even during intensive 3dsmax rendering.
I know this mobo has trouble handling High-end graphics cards like 8800gts/gtx because of it's PCI-E 4x port, but I haven't heard of such issues with mid-range cards...
so if anyone has an idea about it, or has experienced the same kind of problems, please give me feedback. Thx.