forumJunkie
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System Specs
Motherboard - Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 2800+
RAM - Patriot 1 stick of 1GB PC-3200
Hard Drive - SAMSUNG 80GB SP0802N
VDO Card - GIGABYTE nVIDIA GeForce FX5900XT
Burner - NEC 16X ND-3500A
PS - Enermax 350W PSU
I bought this card from NewEgg for a friend of mine and its giving him massive problems. First off when he plays counterstrike he only gets 30 FPS..... that was the first headache. So I told him to update the drivers which he did. He updated it to the newest ForceWare 66.93 but now he gets another error message which states
"The NVIDIA System Sentinel is reporting that the NVIDIA powered graphics card is not receiving sufficient power"
So I thought to myself, yea 350W is kind of weak so I went off and bought him a decent power supply, which would be:
Thermaltake W0013 Silent Purepower 480W
So now I thought to myself of course this is going to work but I get the same error message. I downgraded the video drivers down to the detonator series 52.14 I believe and I didn't get the error message but now the problem was he couldn't install Counter-Strike in OpenGL mode he could only go Software mode which pumped only 30 FPS for him.
Note - There is no power cable into the video card!! I know the newer graphic cards has a slot for the power cable but if you take a look at the pictures at newegg
http://www.newegg.com/app/Show....JPG/14-125-128-01.JPG
There is no other power cable!!
I was about to give up, but I remembered the Pro's @ AnandTech. Any suggestions guys?
-Humble Newb
Motherboard - Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 2800+
RAM - Patriot 1 stick of 1GB PC-3200
Hard Drive - SAMSUNG 80GB SP0802N
VDO Card - GIGABYTE nVIDIA GeForce FX5900XT
Burner - NEC 16X ND-3500A
PS - Enermax 350W PSU
I bought this card from NewEgg for a friend of mine and its giving him massive problems. First off when he plays counterstrike he only gets 30 FPS..... that was the first headache. So I told him to update the drivers which he did. He updated it to the newest ForceWare 66.93 but now he gets another error message which states
"The NVIDIA System Sentinel is reporting that the NVIDIA powered graphics card is not receiving sufficient power"
So I thought to myself, yea 350W is kind of weak so I went off and bought him a decent power supply, which would be:
Thermaltake W0013 Silent Purepower 480W
So now I thought to myself of course this is going to work but I get the same error message. I downgraded the video drivers down to the detonator series 52.14 I believe and I didn't get the error message but now the problem was he couldn't install Counter-Strike in OpenGL mode he could only go Software mode which pumped only 30 FPS for him.
Note - There is no power cable into the video card!! I know the newer graphic cards has a slot for the power cable but if you take a look at the pictures at newegg
http://www.newegg.com/app/Show....JPG/14-125-128-01.JPG
There is no other power cable!!
I was about to give up, but I remembered the Pro's @ AnandTech. Any suggestions guys?
-Humble Newb
