not again!!!!!! 4600 restarting in games!!!!

[TheCrazzyman]

ok i had a chaintech ti 4600 and when i would play games ANY GAME or benchmark. so i tested my card in my friends comp and it worked FINE. so then i found some one to trade it with for a nother 4600. so i did and got a gainward 4600. so i get it in my computer and try and play.......and guess what. it restarts my computer. but the card workes fine in windows (im typing on it now). my specs are


1800+
epox 8kha+
512 ddr ram
promis raid controler
3com nic
sb live 5.1 platinum

nothing is overclocked

all the temps are good.

my 5v rail is 4.69 agp bus rail 1.43

so everything seems find but it does the same thing
i have tryed almost every nvidia driver there is.

what is next?


Thank You

 

[jamesbond007]

What kind of powersupply do you have? Your 5V rail seems a tish low...

Could you give us a wattage and brand. Possibly a model number, too.

 

[TheCrazzyman]

damm fast reply hehe

its a raidmax 400w ill check the V in one minute the modle is PM-S400W

 

[TheCrazzyman]

ok just checked the voltages with the bios and a volt meter

5V 5.34
AGP 1.52

sorry about the first set of voltages. thoes were off the top of my head from when i looked last time

 

[Tycoonx]

It's probably the power supply, I have the same exact mobo and cpu as you and I have the Enermax 431 watts Powersupply which ran my GF3 ti200 fine, but as soon as I upgraded to GF4 ti4600, it wouldn't play any 3D games, it would just restart my PC. My Enermax 5v line at that time was 4.91 (according to docsis), I replaced it with another enermax that has a voltage line of 5.10 and everything ran fine.

 

[jamesbond007]

I agree it's a powersupply issue. A highly-rated, but low-quality powersupply can't compete against a high-quality low-rated powersupply. Maybe swap your PSU with a friend who has an Enermax, Sparkle, or Antec PSU...those are the 3 brands I stick with.

Good luck!

 

[TheCrazzyman]

im going to try and go to kompUSSR and getting this PSU. its 20$+, its one of thiese TruePower True550 ATX here is the linky

here

im going to get that today


THANK YOU GUYS VERRY MUCH

 

[gwlam12]

holy crap, it's 140 dollars

 

[TheCrazzyman]

hehehe yeah but i was gona go redudant. that would have been 250_300$$$

 

[BFG10K]

Make sure you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers for your system and try using the safe defaults in your BIOS.