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trouble with my PNY 6800 ultra agp card bluescreening my computer.

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aeguvas

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ok I bought a PNY 6800 ultra about 6 months ago and have had nothing but problems the whole time. As soon as I installed it. It would crash the computer and blue screen and corrupt the video driver. So I am like ok I have a defective one I will return it and get another. So I did and that was a night mare in and of itself since they were in short supply then. Took like 2 weeks to replace. OK so next I had a 430 watt powersupply from antec a true blu. really nice one. Figured I just didn't have enough juice so bought a 600 watt one from mad dog. Was a pain to install and didn't fix my problem =( So it does the same thing again. I speak to some people in the irc channel #hardware on EFnet those guys rule there. This guy chinabox shows me a post where he had a similar problem. His fix was the overclock the 2d ramdac to match the 3d ramdac. So I did this and it fixed my instability but I still have a problem with my sound card popping every so often when I am playing games. Also my system doesn't act like it should still. I am tempted to go back to my slower ATI 9800 XT. Anyone have any other ideas? It seems like a really rare problem too. Oh I have an MSI Fi2er er something motherboard and it is an athlon 64 3400. Also 1 gig of Corsair ram forgot what kind but its cas 2 and has the LEDs on it. also 2 raptor 74 GB hard drives in raid 0. Please if you have any ideas or any questions don't hesitate to ask? Thanks! oh and I love Anandtech!!
 
Hi aeguvas and Welcome to the Forums!

Sorry, don't have a suggestion ATM, but here's a bump for you.

Fern
 
No idea if this applies or not.

Have a buddy with an ATI card that was showing real classic symptoms of low power: blue screens, hangs where the monitor would go to power save etc.

He found his mobo was defaulting to about .2 volts lower than normal for the agp slot. Bumped it up and no further problems at all.

...just something to add to your list of items to check.
 
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