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6800 Ultra - Windows startup - Major problem

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imported_Organic

Junior Member
Hey,

Apologies if you've had a lot of these, I did run quite a few searches but didn't find any answers, and I hope you guys can help me out.

I recently purchased an Inno3D 6800 Ultra and installed it roughly 5 hours ago, along with a replacement PSU (Q-Tec 550WP) because the previous one was lacking one more mandatory spare connector.

Everything was going pretty well for a while - though there were long freezups (30+ secs) and even windows crashes - suddenly, 4 hours into the card's (or the PSU's) running, there was a crash to a simple black screen with the Intel logo centred - exactly like bootup. I've tried to restart it (holding power) quite a few times but it just brings up exactly the same screen.

My specs are :

Inno3d 6800 Ultra
Intel P4 3.4ghz
1.5 gigs of ram
Q-Tec 550WP dual fan gold-plated PSU

Don't know if much else is important, but will gladly supply it.

Thanks for any replies.
 
Originally posted by: Organic
Hey,

Apologies if you've had a lot of these, I did run quite a few searches but didn't find any answers, and I hope you guys can help me out.

I recently purchased an Inno3D 6800 Ultra and installed it roughly 5 hours ago, along with a replacement PSU (Q-Tec 550WP) because the previous one was lacking one more mandatory spare connector.

Everything was going pretty well for a while - though there were long freezups (30+ secs) and even windows crashes - suddenly, 4 hours into the card's (or the PSU's) running, there was a crash to a simple black screen with the Intel logo centred - exactly like bootup. I've tried to restart it (holding power) quite a few times but it just brings up exactly the same screen.

My specs are :

Inno3d 6800 Ultra
Intel P4 3.4ghz
1.5 gigs of ram
Q-Tec 550WP dual fan gold-plated PSU

Don't know if much else is important, but will gladly supply it.

Thanks for any replies.
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wow, seems like a waste...
andway, it might be power problems. ythe psu isnt exactly high quality. if the voltages is ooff a litle or the 12v rail is messed up, your pc wont work too well.(espically, you're using essentially a generic ps to power an ultra!) dont skinp on a ps, a quality ps is worth it's price.
 
The Q-Tec is pos mate i had 1 and its prob not gonna give u solid rails like a good manu's 430watt, even as its 550 and there is new 650 triple fans ones, try borrow a pals pcu not need rip it out case, stick both pc's near each other plug into his instead of yours.
 
Buy an OCZ 520 Power Stream, It should handle that card no problem if the psu is the problem, did you try another card? Did you try the ultra in another system? If you try another card and it boots, it should be the psu. Obviously if the card doesnt boot in another system, its probably done.
 
I'm running my 6800U off an antec 350watt PSU no problems. right now I even have it plugged into the same harness as my hardrive. You do not need a 550watt whatever to run a 6800U.

Any high quality 350watt+ PSU will do. Your problem is probably not your PSU but a hardware conflict. Driver conflict maybe. What card did you have before the 6800U?

Of course you do have a 3.4gig pwr hungry P4 so something a little better than a 350watt would be in order 🙂
 
Any high quality 350watt+ PSU will do. Your problem is probably not your PSU but a hardware conflict. Driver conflict maybe. What card did you have before the 6800U?
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I had a Ti4800SE.

Edit : I did remove all NVid drivers before installing the 6800Ult. though.
 
Originally posted by: mwmorph
just out of curiosity, what's your rigs specs killrose? how can you run it with so little power?
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Epox 8RDA nForce2
2x256mb HyperX PC3500
Barton Mobile 2500+@2.4gig 1.7vcore
Vantec AeroFlow
eVGA 6800 Ultra 400/1100 (425/1200 np even)
(1) 40gb WD 7200/8mb HD
Audigy1 snd card
(1)CDRW
(1)DVD player
(2) 80mm low rpm case fans
WinXP@home
Antec 350watt True Blue (came std in my Antec LanBoy case)

Not a full featured A64/SATA-RAID fancy pants set-up 🙂
But my system is proof of the fact that 400-550watts is not alway's needed. Admittedly I do feel that I could get more from my CPU and Video card if I had more PSU. But it is stable as a rock.
 
Killrose, thats madness, you will end up shortening the life of that PSU, i have the antec tp550 and 6800u, on box recs a 480watt PSU obv to give headroom to o/c it, but its all over box and sites not to plug in sharing with hdd or roms ok if slow fans, ideally you are meant to use 2 seperate powerlines on there own, you lucky it even runs and it wont last long, a 350 watt psu today is nothing, id be lucky to even boot my rig with it and iits not a P4 pos its amd mobile, i know same rig i go with a ti4600 wont boot on a quality 250watt even to bios screen.

I would advise anyone against plugging there 6800u in with hdd or rom and a 350watt PSU into the bargain NO, your poor little psu will be loaded up 100% and running hot compaired to a higher rated one ticking along nicely.
 
What that to do with it, he has a mobile thats normally 266fsb and i guess 1.6gig in a lappy but he aint runnig that on desktop, im on a 2600m its default 2.0gig at 266fsb, i run 2.8gig 450fsb @1.9v, i see he is runnig it at 2.4gig @ 1.7v, thats more than a xp3200 (2.2gig) desktop cpu @ 1.65v so he is using more power than a xp3200.

The gpu maker stats a spec and although its high to allow headroom 350 is a joke, maybe ok in 2001.

I hope his PSU last the pace but i doubt it esp on 1 rail and sharing with HDDs, he could be underspeeding the HDD and it will fail as of this low volts.

Stick a multimeter (not software) on the 12volt lead and read volts under full load i bet its well low.
 
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