Just got 8800gtx seems to be messed up

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: maeveth

All power connectors are connected correctly. This was a fresh system install I completely wiped the drive when I installed the new components.

Not trying to be a smarta$$ here but are you sure you have connected the power connectors correclty? If the system has warned you(even only once) then it may be in throttling mode to protect the gpu.
Also try something else..
Reset the bios and check again.
When I fisrt installed my GTX system booted but when I was getting into windows the system freezed repeatedly after some secs. Only when I did reset the bios the problem disappeared..

 

[maeveth]

Yes I am sure(I am a system administrator). I just got the parts last night and I am currently at work and thus havent had much time to play with them. Posted here in an effort to save my self the time of having to figure out the problem tonight.

Thanks for you input though 8 )

 

[Pugnate]

What is it with you people and bottleneck? Bottleneck must be the biggest b.s. answer on the internet. It seems to be the Houdini answer to everything. Yes lack of processing power affects things, but not so much that it would become slower than the 7900. Besides... the 7900 was using the same processor!

 

[lobbyone]

My guess would be the drivers, I'd say wait for new drivers and see what happens then

 

[imported_Wanger]

Should I leave my address so you can send me the 600 for a new card?

 

[NYHoustonman]

I'm having the same issue now... Yesterday I was getting 10k, now not near that (I haven't bothered to let the benchmark run it's course, it starts at 15FPS which is far too low). I think (but I'm not sure) it has something to do with the video card being stuck with 2D clocks, and not switching over to 3D. I've tried cleaning and reinstalling chipset and video drivers, and that didn't help.

My reason for saying so is that, since this problem came up, my card doesn't reach nearly the same temperatures it did even earlier today, when it was working fine...

EDIT-fixed it... ran driver cleaner on the .cab file as well, and that worked somehow (although I had used driver cleaner on my last attempt as well).

 

[niggles]

Originally posted by: Pugnate
What is it with you people and bottleneck? Bottleneck must be the biggest b.s. answer on the internet.

That's how my dad died.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: niggles

Originally posted by: Pugnate
What is it with you people and bottleneck? Bottleneck must be the biggest b.s. answer on the internet.

That's how my dad died.

?!

 

[patentman]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
1. Your CPU is a bottleneck on the GPU.

2. Is you power supply powerful enough?

CPU isn't that big of a bottleneck. I have a 4800+ with the 8800GTX and scored 8900 in 3dmark06. I would expect a 4200+ to be scoring in the 7000's

 

[maeveth]

Got it fixed last night. Used the driver EVGA gave me on the CD instead of the WHQL one on nVidia's site. I am now using 96.89s. I got 10K in 3DMark06 now.

 

[Centurin]

It would seem the new Nvidia drivers are borked.

 

[rise]

yeah, a pita install. they need to get us some new drivers.

i had the same problem as the OP, lower scores than i had with my 7800gtx, same configuration.

after a few driver installs/re-installs/cleanings i finally took Jims advice and reset cmos and that seemed to do the trick-

8210 3d06 @stock

x2 3800 @ 2700
dfi sli-dr
2 gigs
enhance 0560g

temps suck though 62 idle??

doens't seem to go up much though.

edit- i had it on auto fan control. set it at 90% and it drops it down- 76c while running ati artifact check.

 

[imported_Wanger]

Well according to that extreme PSU calculator recently posted in the general forum my 500w psu isn't enough it said I need 613w worth. What do you guys think? Seems to me 500w would be enough

Asus premium
2gb ram
2hds
8800gtx
dvd-rw
2 fans
4200 x2

 

[Matt2]

That same PSU calculator told me the rig in my sig needed 520w, but yet I managed for MONTHS with a Fortron Blue Storm 500w, which was really 460w and only had 30a on the 12v.

 

[imported_Imp]

Your 500W is fine nd dandy, but if it's got 200 (please do not do the math here...) amps on the 12v line, that won't help. How many amps does the 12v rail have on your 500W Enermax?

Originally posted by: Wanger
Pretty sure I did a clean install but incase I didn't I gave it a try. This time after installing the new drivers I got an error saying nvidia sentinal is reporting my card isn't getting enough power so it's going to reduce the performace so it won't overheat. My plan was to buy a new computer in a couple months, I like to buy pre built computers so I would rather not buy a new power supply. What about those add-on things for power supplys that give them more power? I saw something about them on the forums can someone link me to them maybe give me some information on it.


I went back to the drivers that came with the cd and it didn't give me that error. Is there any chance maybe it's just a problem with the new drivers and my power supply is fine? In my old computer when there wasn't enough power going to my card the error would come up every time i started up windows. It didn't do that here.

Solved your own problem. My dead SATA controller and DVD drive didn't spit out an error message all the time either, but they showed that error every time it killed the sysytem.

 

[imported_Wanger]

I don't know much about PSU how to I find out how many amps are on the 12v rail?

 

[AndrewL]

Look it up on newegg or some e-tailer and look under specifications. Should have a list of the rails and amperages. Add up all the 12v+ amperages to see what your power supply gives on the 12v rail. If its a single rail psu their will only be 1 12v+. 12v- for the most part doesnt matter so dont count that.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194003 If thats your psu it puts out 44 amps total 22 on each 12v rail.

12v amperages are basically the most important thing when buying a psu. In most cases far more important than what the wattage of the psu is advertised as.

Vid cards and processors run mainly on the 12v rail. So if your psu has 1000w, but only puts 20a on the 12v rail then it sucks.

A good single rail psu has in the high 20's - mid 30's on the 12v rail.

 

[imported_Wanger]

that is my psu

 

[rise]

it actually only puts out 32a on the 12v combined but that should still be enough, unless you have a crazy amount of drives, fans, etc.

are you still getting the power warning?

 

[imported_Wanger]

I only got the power warning after the second time I reinstalled the newest drivers from nvidia website. I switched back to the drivers from the cd and have never gotten the error again.

 

[rise]

it may sound stupid, but after clearing cmos in bios, my card was fine. thAT WAS AFTER MANY DRIVER CLEANS AND REINSTALLS. I WAS HITTING LIKE 3K BEFORE RESTTING CMOS.

sorry caplocks, too early to re-type.

 

[imported_Wanger]

I decided to buy another PSU went with a SilverStone 650w it got a 9.0 rating at johnnyguru's website, from what i've seen on here that the place to go for reviews. Was about the only card on amazon I saw (lots of $$ in gift cards) so went with this. Will see Monday or Tuesday if my video card improves.

 

[ChrisRay]

Hi everybody. Nvidia asked me to reply to this thread as their is a small issue with the Geforce 8800GTX and 3dmark06 that results from a registry issue. They have a fix for those experiencing problems. Hope this will help the OP and anyone else experiencing problems

Chris



Note from NVIDIA on GeForce 8800 and 3DMark06

A small number of users have reported low 3DMark06 scores with their GeForce 8800 GTX boards. This issue is easy to resolve by uninstalling previous Release 90 drivers, cleaning out old registry keys, and reinstalling the driver.

NVIDIA always recommends uninstalling older drivers before installing new ones.

Users can use registry and driver cleaning tools such as Driver Cleaner to remove pre-installed driver remnants, and/or follow these steps:

1) Uninstall NVIDIA driver using one of two methods

a) Control Panel - Add/Remove programs - Select NVIDIA Drivers - chose "remove only the following" and select "NVIDIA Display Driver"

or

b) Right click on desktop screen/Properties/Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Properties/Driver/Uninstall

2) After uninstalling the NVIDIA driver, reboot into standard Microsoft VGA driver mode

3) Go to Start > Run > and type ?regedit"- select HKey Local Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video and delete ALL keys. Also go into HKey Local Machine/System/ControlSet001, 002, 003 (if they exist), and delete any keys down the /Control/Video paths similar to above.

3) Install NVIDIA 97.02 or higher driver

This should clean up driver remnants and provide a clean installation, yielding proper performance.

--GeForce 8800 product team

 

[dimd00d]

Tried this procedure - didnt work for me. Im still getting about 3800 in 3dmark 2006 with a 8800GTX (oddly changing resolution to 640x480 or 1600x1050 doesnt change the result), I should be getting around 9-10K (E6400 with 2g ram)

The card performs brilliantly in Gothic 3, Oblivion and NWN2, but the results from 3dmark and aquamark are pathetic - apparently yet another rushed driver release that attempts to detect the common benchmarks

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: ChrisRay
Hi everybody. Nvidia asked me to reply to this thread as their is a small issue with the Geforce 8800GTX and 3dmark06 that results from a registry issue. They have a fix for those experiencing problems. Hope this will help the OP and anyone else experiencing problems

Chris



Note from NVIDIA on GeForce 8800 and 3DMark06

A small number of users have reported low 3DMark06 scores with their GeForce 8800 GTX boards. This issue is easy to resolve by uninstalling previous Release 90 drivers, cleaning out old registry keys, and reinstalling the driver.

NVIDIA always recommends uninstalling older drivers before installing new ones.

Users can use registry and driver cleaning tools such as Driver Cleaner to remove pre-installed driver remnants, and/or follow these steps:

1) Uninstall NVIDIA driver using one of two methods

a) Control Panel - Add/Remove programs - Select NVIDIA Drivers - chose "remove only the following" and select "NVIDIA Display Driver"

or

b) Right click on desktop screen/Properties/Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Properties/Driver/Uninstall

2) After uninstalling the NVIDIA driver, reboot into standard Microsoft VGA driver mode

3) Go to Start > Run > and type ?regedit"- select HKey Local Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video and delete ALL keys. Also go into HKey Local Machine/System/ControlSet001, 002, 003 (if they exist), and delete any keys down the /Control/Video paths similar to above.

3) Install NVIDIA 97.02 or higher driver

This should clean up driver remnants and provide a clean installation, yielding proper performance.

--GeForce 8800 product team

I thought you were banned?