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9600GT problem

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darkesnow

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Hey all,

I recently bought a 9600GT, and since buying it, I have not been able to get it to work. When I connect it and install the drivers, during normal operations I get flashes on the screen, the occasional stray or rainbow pixel, and when gaming - well, games don't work at ALL. When I try to start one (WoW, LOTRO, etc.) the screen gets banded with garbled bands of data, or occasionally one texture or one mask for an item will fill the screen, a piece of sound will play repeatedly and sputter, and I will not be able to exit, forcing me to have to do a dirty shutdown by rolling my eyes in exasperation and holding down the power button.

I have tried eve.ry.thing. New drivers for video card and mobo, a bios flash, a complete new Windows install, a new power supply, new memory, I even bought a different 9600GT card (made by a different company) that exhibits the exact same issues.

Now, my recent suspicion was that the new power supply did not have the oomph to support the card (650w, but only 25A max on the rail) but I've been told that this power supply should be adequate, and it's the total amperage across all the rails, not just the max on one.

So here's my setup:
Core2Duo 6700 Conroe
EVGA 750i FTW
Asus 9600GT (and/or)
BFG 9600GT
3 gb memory (2 512 DDR2 667, 2 1GB DDR2 667) (I think, not at home to be absolutely sure about the speed)
2 ODD (1 DVD-RAM, one DVD-RW)
2 HDD
and powering the whole shebangie, a Antec650 Earthwatts PSU.

So - can anyone help? Where am I going wrong? Is this power supply sufficient? If needed, I can take a photo to show exactly what's happening on the screen tonight, If anyone thinks graphic evidence is necessary.

Anyone? Help a girl out please, I'm jonesing for my TF2. :D

S
 
Don't know if this is a stupid idea or not but are you sure it's not the monitor? Or that you are getting the right drivers for that card? Try the ones off the cd maybe? You are right, that power supply should be more than adequate. Hope you find the solution, TF2 rocks we just had a 10 person lan at our flat yesterday with that game, kept us occupied for about 4 hours straight!

EDIT: Didn't see that it crashes, sorry. Maybe you just by chance got two defective cards lol. Are the cards heating up maybe? Could you try them in another machine to make sure that they do indeed work properly?
 
See, I thought it was a defective card, that's why I bought the second one as well. I tried the drivers on the respective disks first, then tried the most recent release, then even the most recent stable beta - all with the same results. (I'm uninstalling and running Driver Cleaner between installs as well). The cards don't have time to heat up - the games won't even start. The fans on the cards' heat sinks are all running like champs, and the ambient cooling inside the case is more than adequate too (AeroCool ZeroDegree case with 250mm side panel fan, and a custom heat exhaust porthole cut above the cards to vent heat up and out of the case).
I don't have a test box to try them in seperately, sadly.
 
Bump... does anyone else agree? I'm at the point where I'm ready to at least try a different power supply - unless anyone else has any ideas of something else to try...
 
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