ASUS 9600GT issues

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darkesnow

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Hi all,

I just installed my new card last night, and it works great for web and other light use, but whenever i start a game (WoW, HalfLife 2, etc) the screen flickers and the picture gets all garbled, and the screen will flicker and lock up for 15 or so seconds at a time. Sound also hitches and skips. Any ideas what may be wrong? The only thing I can think of is that I am down to 1 gb of ram while I'm waiting for my new chips to come in.

Any ideas/suggestions welcomed.
 
680 watt psu, with its own seperate rail. I saw that too, but that's a more than adequate power supply isn't it?
 
I'm on xp sp 2. I'll be clearing the cmos and reinstalling the drivers tonight later, when I get home.
 
All right. I cleared the cmos, booted into safe mode and ran driver cleaner and removed all nvidia anything, rebooted and reinstalled Mobo drivers and vga drivers from the disk that came with the card (I had upgraded to the most recent version from nvidia before and thought maybe I had a buggy driver). I reseated my memory and my video card. I checked my temps, which are entirely reasonable.

I loaded up WoW, which - let's face it - isn't cutting edge graphics wise, and still get the same issue - the sound plays ok for a few seconds, then after a while starts to skip. The picture loads fine initially, then animation stops, the screen flickers and the whole think looks like it's just locked up, and then after 30 seconds or so the image in the wow window gets garbled with other stuff - for instance, on a screen where I was trying to adjust video options to see if that would help, all the check boxes were replaced with icons of bags. Weird.

My new memory will be here tomorrow - I'm going to try with 2 more gb of ram - but failing that, what do youall think - RMA the card?

EDIT: I just tested VLC, and movies play fine with no garbling. Just FYI.
 
just remember that under xp all memory is counted as system memory for addressing and housekeeping. If you already have 2 or more gigs of ram then you are going to add another GB of ram and that will push you over the 4gb limit. While i think it's either a card or psu issue keep xp's memory management in mind as well.
 
yes that the card will push you to 4 gigs..this is going to wrap around and cause issues internally. stick with 2 gigs of main memory as xp is only going to be able to address 3-3.5 gigs if you have 4 or more total.
 
Ok, so I got home tonight determined to lick this thing - or at the very least go down swinging. I installed the chips (after doing the math all the ram plus the video card is 3.5gb so I decided to give it a try), rechecked the card seat, swapped out 1 six-pin rail labeled p1 for one labeled pci-e, and tried wow. Still all flickery and skippy. I shut down the pc, popped out the cmos battery, powered all the way down and unplugged for 3 minutes, plugged back in, reseated the battery, pressed my cmos reset button, and rebooted into safe mode and tried to remove and reinstall the drivers again.

After three tries of trying to either remove cleanly (yes, I tried driver cleaner) or reinstall, I decided to repartition and reformat the c drive and put in a clean windows install to get rid of nvidia's crappy driver leftovers and start afresh. I figure anything left is bound to be a hardware issue.

By now it's 4 am and I'm too tired to spend a ton of time installing wow. I'll install and patch tomorrow and let you all know how I make out. I'm leaving the video memory stress test running overnight - I hope nothing explodes while I'm asleep. :)
 
darkesnow said:
Ok, so I got home tonight determined to lick this thing - or at the very least go down swinging. I installed the chips (after doing the math all the ram plus the video card is 3.5gb so I decided to give it a try), rechecked the card seat, swapped out 1 six-pin rail labeled p1 for one labeled pci-e, and tried wow. Still all flickery and skippy. I shut down the pc, popped out the cmos battery, powered all the way down and unplugged for 3 minutes, plugged back in, reseated the battery, pressed my cmos reset button, and rebooted into safe mode and tried to remove and reinstall the drivers again.

After three tries of trying to either remove cleanly (yes, I tried driver cleaner) or reinstall, I decided to repartition and reformat the c drive and put in a clean windows install to get rid of nvidia's crappy driver leftovers and start afresh. I figure anything left is bound to be a hardware issue.

By now it's 4 am and I'm too tired to spend a ton of time installing wow. I'll install and patch tomorrow and let you all know how I make out. I'm leaving the video memory stress test running overnight - I hope nothing explodes while I'm asleep. :)
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Good luck. I always hated reinstalling wow.
 
After all of that, I yanked and am going to RMA that card. I'm running my former dual 7600GS SLI arrangement, and I'm newly in love with it working a treat. Yay. Now if only the 9600 would run as well...
 
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