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leadtek 6600 gt problems, HELP!

GiRaff3

GiRaff3

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leadtek 6600gt 128mb agp
1gb (2x512) corsair value select ddr 3200
xp3000+
gigabyte k7 triton ga-7n400s-L
400w ps

i have been looking all over the net and i am having trouble finding answers...

i just built the computer, put on sp2, got all updates done. chipset drivers, everything...put the card in and tried to start gaming. very shortly into playing just about any game it crashes out to desktop on me. the reports the games put out are inconclusive. i gave the card its own dedicated connector from the power supply, there is literally nothing else on it. i have read about power issues, but i think it is BS. there have been so many people to go out and buy new power supplys for this card and they still have issues, so i am going to just pass that up.

does anyone out there have any ideas? suggestions? please help, i am extremely frustrated. i leave for germany soon and i would like to get this working so i can enjoy a little gaming before i leave...

thanks
 
What are the settings in the Nvidia control panel?
Are you trying to run games at rediculously high resoltuions with too much filtering?

If that is not the case, I think you have a dud on your hands. RMA time.
 
ghetto brand that doesnt put out enough juice on the +12 rail to support the card apparently
 
Sounds like a bad memory bank on your system ram or bad bank on your vga card ram. I had a problem where my pc would just randomly shut off. after running XP memory diagnostic tool"get from Windows site" it confirmed I had a bad memory bank. Are you getting any errors after your pc restarts?
 
Try memtest86+ in dos, loop test 5, check for errors.
 
This may be an old thread, but I recently went through this when upgrading my proc and RAM. It started right after the new proc upped the FSB. You should check your Event Viewer's (Control Panel > Admin Tools > Event Viewer) system log for any "Save Dump" type entries. If you get things like 0x00000024, it claims to be an NTFS problem, and it is, because my profile (explorer settings and outlook) got hosed after my system kept rebooting, but the problem in my case was the RAM not playing well with timings. I was attempting 2-2-2-5 and 2-2-2-6 with my Mushkin Enhanced 2-2-2 ram that others say can go to 2-2-2-5 but my board will only run stable at 2-2-2-7. The 7 is Row Active Delay, BTW.

If you throttle your CPU down in the BIOS to a slower speed and stability returns, then I would definately say it's the RAM timings, in which case, try adjusting your Row Active Delay to start. Try 7 or 8.
 
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