[Help]Aopen Nvidia 6600 GT

[Rdavido]

I just put my system together yesterday and I got my Nvidia 6600GT today in the mail.

I installed it and played games with it fine. I then went to run 3dMark03. I got to test 3 and midway through my system just crashed. I kept rebooting, but the monitor said no VGA signal. I had to clear the CMOS in order to get back up and running.

Now, when I try to run the games I get artifacting. What is the problem. I have installed the latest drivers (10/18/2004).

The model is an Aopen 6600GT

System Specs:

2.8GHz P4 520
1GB Corsair RAM
Aopen Nvidia 6600GT

I am also running the latest Direct X. I uninstalled the driver completely and ran the 3D Flowerbox screensaver and there was no artifacts. Maybe it is the driver?

Someone help.

 

[eydolic]

It sounds like the video card is bad. Do you have a system speaker? If not, put one in and see if you get any video beeps. Go into the bios and try disabling fast writes and manually set the AGP transfer rate to 8x and then 4x if that doesn't work. Make sure that the AGP is operating at 66mhz, and no more than 69mhz. If it is PCI-e, then set it to 8. What motherboard are you using? If it isn't the video card, then it could be any number of things. A motherboard (esp with an overheated NB) can cause that, or a processor that is flaky... Ram could cause this as well. It's all going to have to be gone through and checked out. Good luck.

 

[imported_Phil]

What kind of airflow do you have through the case? Sounds to me like it's overheating, IMO.

 

[Rdavido]

I have 3 case fans going through the case.
I am running the MSI i915G Motherboard.

I could not find where to set my PCI-e to "8".

I was able to play Rome: TW no problem, but when I went to do a test with 3dMark03, it crashed the system and I had to clear the system BIOS to get it going again.

The RAM is seated correctly and so is the CPU, I do not know what to make of this.

 

[eydolic]

PCI-e for video defaults to 16x. I was just recommending to set it to a lower speed for diagnostics. Did you try a system speaker? Run MemTest86+ overnight and see what kind of results come up. It might be something to do with aperature (if PCI-e uses it, I'm not sure if it does)

 

[Rdavido]

At the moment I have no system speaker in, I will try that later today. I will run the memtests though.