Im back, yes with the same problem

[Evdawg]

So if anybody remembers me getting flamed out my a$$ for overclocking my 6800gt and then rma'ing it.

Well i sent in the card, and naturally it came back with a new card. I hooked up the new card friday night, ran it on HL2 and it was fine. Saturday night after work i come in and my sisters told me it was acting goofy (randomly shutting off while playing sim2) so it scared me, knowing this was the start of the problem last time. Immediately it started giving me artifacts and problems again, then i couldnt get past windows once again and running off of no drivers right now. Well since this proves that overclocking was not the problem on my last card, what is the issue? What's causing this? I'm really at a loss and dont know what to say. I can't think that its my motherboard...

P.S. yes i did reset my cmos to make sure everything was default


edit : flame thread

 

[imverygifted]

that really sounds like a bad graphics card, throw it in another machine and see how it works

 

[Killrose]

What card were you running while waiting on the RMA? Maybe your PSU is not good enough, that would explain the crashing, but maybe not the artifacts. Try using one of the other DVI ports maybe?

Maybe you RMA'd a perfectly good card and it was something else in your system all along, LOL!! :shocked:

 

[Acanthus]

sounds like power supply to me.

 

[Evdawg]

if its the psu, why did it work for... about 6 months no problems then go down hill?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Evdawg
if its the psu, why did it work for... about 6 months no problems then go down hill?

You didnt mention that, posting all the details in one thread would be nice.

Do you have a working PCI-E lock? running the PCI express slot out of spec can kill cards as well.

 

[Evdawg]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Evdawg
if its the psu, why did it work for... about 6 months no problems then go down hill?

You didnt mention that, posting all the details in one thread would be nice.

Do you have a working PCI-E lock? running the PCI express slot out of spec can kill cards as well.

well why would i list that detail if i know thats not the problem?
my board doesnt have a pci-e slot.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Evdawg

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Evdawg
if its the psu, why did it work for... about 6 months no problems then go down hill?

You didnt mention that, posting all the details in one thread would be nice.

Do you have a working PCI-E lock? running the PCI express slot out of spec can kill cards as well.

well why would i list that detail if i know thats not the problem?
my board doesnt have a pci-e slot.

Sorry PCI/AGP lock then.

 

[Evdawg]

agp/pci lock is the agp bus speed right? default is 66, and on my board you change it to 67 correct? its at 66, default.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Evdawg
if its the psu, why did it work for... about 6 months no problems then go down hill?

It's the PSU ya big dope. Same thing happened to me and also to my best friend. The strain of having a GT on your PSU is not a light one. It can cause an otherwise perfectly functional PSU to a premature demise. Do a test. Unplug anything you don't need in your system. EG CD rom drives, fans, lights whatever. And see if it still happens or at least less often.

 

[Killrose]

BTW, what is your PSU? And maybe you could set your CPU to stock settings to take some strain off your PSU while you trouble shoot your vid card problem

 

[Evdawg]

im at stock everything right now. my psu is the Antec 350 (the one that comes with the lanboy)

i still dont think its the psu cause of the artifacts i get... maybe im wrong?

 

[m21s]

A buddy of mine was having the same problems.
I told him it was his power supply....he told me i didn't know what i was talking about.
He eventually bought a new one...now he has no issues.

I think it is your PSU.

my .02

 

[Evdawg]

ok thank yall so very much.. i will try it.

its just hard to think of artifacts and a psu in the same sentence.

 

[Evdawg]

Originally posted by: Killrose
What card were you running while waiting on the RMA? Maybe your PSU is not good enough, that would explain the crashing, but maybe not the artifacts. Try using one of the other DVI ports maybe?

Maybe you RMA'd a perfectly good card and it was something else in your system all along, LOL!! :shocked:

yea well they said they would test the card once they recieved it, so thats why i figured the card actually was bad when i got a different one back.

 

[Navid]

Use a Volt meter and measure the 12V rail voltage on an unused Molex connector while running ATItool "Scan for artifacts".
Run it for 20 minutes and keep monitoring the voltage.
Then, report the results.

If the 12V voltage never dropped below 11.6V, your PSU is not the problem. If it did, it may be the problem. If it dropped below 11.4V, you definitely have a PSU problem.

 

[Evdawg]

Originally posted by: Navid
Use a Volt meter and measure the 12V rail voltage on an unused Molex connector while running ATItool "Scan for artifacts".
Run it for 20 minutes and keep monitoring the voltage.
Then, report the results.

If the 12V voltage never dropped below 11.6V, your PSU is not the problem. If it did, it may be the problem. If it dropped below 11.4V, you definitely have a PSU problem.

im actually gonna do itthe easy and pick up a psu from best buy here in a bit

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: Evdawg

Originally posted by: Navid
Use a Volt meter and measure the 12V rail voltage on an unused Molex connector while running ATItool "Scan for artifacts".
Run it for 20 minutes and keep monitoring the voltage.
Then, report the results.

If the 12V voltage never dropped below 11.6V, your PSU is not the problem. If it did, it may be the problem. If it dropped below 11.4V, you definitely have a PSU problem.

im actually gonna do itthe easy and pick up a psu from best buy here in a bit

Why?
How do you know it is the PSU?
What if you get a new PSU and the problem persists? How would you know that both PSUs don't have the same problem?

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: Evdawg
im at stock everything right now. my psu is the Antec 350 (the one that comes with the lanboy)

i still dont think its the psu cause of the artifacts i get... maybe im wrong?

The 350watt Smart Blue is a solid PSU as long as it is working. I've got one running a Barton mobile @2.4gig with a 6800Ultra and not much else, but it works fine.

Use a motherboard monitoring programm and take some readings. Also for grins remove one of the mem modules and check it. Substitute the other one back in if the problem persists. Also, did you try re-installing DX9c?

 

[Evdawg]

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: Evdawg

Originally posted by: Navid
Use a Volt meter and measure the 12V rail voltage on an unused Molex connector while running ATItool "Scan for artifacts".
Run it for 20 minutes and keep monitoring the voltage.
Then, report the results.

If the 12V voltage never dropped below 11.6V, your PSU is not the problem. If it did, it may be the problem. If it dropped below 11.4V, you definitely have a PSU problem.

im actually gonna do itthe easy and pick up a psu from best buy here in a bit

Why?
How do you know it is the PSU?
What if you get a new PSU and the problem persists? How would you know that both PSUs don't have the same problem?

you think two different PSU's, different power, everything are going to have the same problem? I dont. If the same problem persists i will resort to another issue, not the PSU.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: Evdawg

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: Evdawg

Originally posted by: Navid
Use a Volt meter and measure the 12V rail voltage on an unused Molex connector while running ATItool "Scan for artifacts".
Run it for 20 minutes and keep monitoring the voltage.
Then, report the results.

If the 12V voltage never dropped below 11.6V, your PSU is not the problem. If it did, it may be the problem. If it dropped below 11.4V, you definitely have a PSU problem.

im actually gonna do itthe easy and pick up a psu from best buy here in a bit

Why?
How do you know it is the PSU?
What if you get a new PSU and the problem persists? How would you know that both PSUs don't have the same problem?

you think two different PSU's, different power, everything are going to have the same problem? I dont. If the same problem persists i will resort to another issue, not the PSU.

Sounds like an expensive way to figure out if it is the PSU or not. You can get a digital Volt meter for $19.99 from Sears (with warranty that is offered by Sears).

 

[Evdawg]

i have 30 days to return it. If its not the problem then back to the store it goes. And dont anybody flame me for doing that, ive spent enough money at that store.

 

[Evdawg]

yup that was the issue... preciate it guys <3