Shorted 6600GT??!?!

[atb1o1]

I recently bought a Leadtek 6600GT AGP and it worked flawlessly for 1 week. Temp running Idle at 40c and load is less than 60c everything is stock and no overclocking.

I played about 2 hours of CS:S 2-3 times during that 1 week and during the weekend I got Guildwars and played 5 hours straight..hehe thats when my 6600GT died all of the sudden.

I zoned back to the city and in the loading screen my computer turned off by itself...

At first, i thought it overheated! but when i open up the case and touch the heatsink of my cpu and vid card it was warm, not hot..just warm so overheat wasn't the issue. I cannot power on my computer after that.

I took out the 6600GT and plug my old 9600 pro back and my computer powered on. I than plug my 6600GT back in and it won't power up! I than unplug the 4 pin molex and turn on my computer...and it powers up!! so whenever i plug the 4 pin molex into the AGP 6600GT card my computer won't power up. I guess its a shorted out. My question is, what would have shorted my 6600GT? is it the 5 hours of gaming? I bought an enermax noisetaker 485 Watt PSU just for the card too.

 

[Blues X]

Did you try a different 4-pin connector than the one you had been using?

Might be worth a shot to see if it's that 12v line and not the vid card itself.

 

[atb1o1]

oh yes, i tried that. I even tried it with my old PSU with just the motherboard power plugged in and its the same thing. I took it back to the place I bought it and their tech had the same problem. I got an exchange (haven't got it yet since they were out of stock) I'm just afraid the same thing will happen again. If I knew what may have caused it i could try and prevent it from happening again.

 

[kurt454]

I just sold my MSI 6600gt to a guy on this forum. It worked fine for a couple of days, then it caught on fire. Makes me wonder about these 6600's.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: kurt454
I just sold my MSI 6600gt to a guy on this forum. It worked fine for a couple of days, then it caught on fire. Makes me wonder about these 6600's.

nah thats just MSI engineering for u

 

[kurt454]

I always thought MSI was a good brand. What is considered a good brand of Nvidia card?

 

[atb1o1]

caught on fire!!! now you are scaring me... I thought Msi was a good brand too.. darn..i'm afraid the same thing might happen again..maybe i'll just settle for a Sapphire 9800 pro...its alot cheaper than the 6600GT..