6600gt big problem

[n]

Problem: My newly upgraded graphics card isn't playing 3d games.


Before i upgraded my graphics card to an a6600gt 128mb tdh leadtek
winfast i was able to play 3d graphics games on my computer eg silent
hunter 3.

Now when i try to play the game instead of seeing the characters faces
i see polygons and / or the game plays ok but freezes when i am about
to sink a ship and / or the system reboots for no apparent reason.

I have installed fresh drivers and the mobo bios is up to date. The
gpu temperature at idle is about 50C.

How can i solve this problem.


My Power supply unit is :

Techno Bird Japan inc is:

450 watt ver 2.03

450w 116v 10a 50/60hz
450w 230v 5a 50/60hz

+3.3v +5v +12v -5v -12v
30a 45a 15a 1a 1a
240w 180w 5w 12w 12.5
450w maximum

 

[Brian Pemberton]

Problem: My newly upgraded graphics card isn't playing 3d games.


Before i upgraded my graphics card to an a6600gt 128mb tdh leadtek
winfast i was able to play 3d graphics games on my computer eg silent
hunter 3.

Now when i try to play the game instead of seeing the characters faces
i see polygons and / or the game plays ok but freezes when i am about
to sink a ship and / or the system reboots for no apparent reason.

I have installed fresh drivers and the mobo bios is up to date. The
gpu temperature at idle is about 50C.

50C at idle? That's a bit high, isn't it?
Sounds like a cooling problem.

 

[n]

I put the card into the agp slot. Then I connected one of the spare
cables from the psu to the graphics card to give it power. But do i
need to attach yet another cable to / from something? (There was that
funny cleft cable that looked like it should be plugged into the
graphics card and then into two other things... but i didn't use
that...)

I have an aluminium case but no exhaust fans installed from inside the
case to outside. The psu has a fan to the outside.

PS

Core temperature 56
Ambient temperature 46

This temperature is just from surfing the net after a couple of hours

 

[Brian Pemberton]

I put the card into the agp slot. Then I connected one of the spare
cables from the psu to the graphics card to give it power. But do i
need to attach yet another cable to / from something? (There was that
funny cleft cable that looked like it should be plugged into the
graphics card and then into two other things... but i didn't use
that...)

From another forum:

"I spent several days trying to fix the same symptoms (GeForce 6600 GT AGP goes black), and in my case it turned out to be that the
extra power cable wasn't connected to the card! Without that cable, it drew enough power from the AGP slot to run most things, but
once it got enough verts blowing through it, it would crash and take the whole system with it. Plugging in one of the plugs from the
power supply into the receptacle on the back of the card fixed everything. It's now running fine with a 350W PSU. "


HTH

 

[n]

I opened up my box again.

On my leadtek card there is only one place to attach a power cable. I
had already attached the power cable from my psu to the graphics card.

I was thinking that the cable that was supplied by leadtek might be
able to be plugged into the card at this one place and then there might
be some way of attaching the two loose ends to other things, eg the PSU
and the mobo. But i now doubt that this is what should be done. I have
left the graphics card in the agp slot and it is linked to the psu by
one of the psu cables. (That cable is also connected at another point
to my dvd player, which it also powers.)

My motherboard is a gigabyte ga6vtxd rev. 1.0.
It can hold two cpu but is only holding one, the pentium 3 1000/133.
There are 3 sticks of memory in the board making a total of about 750MB
of ram.

My mobo:
http://www.yoursite.com/pc-185414-2121-gigabyte-ga-6vtxd.aspx

I don't think the problem is power cables. What could it be? Cooling?
Well i took the side off the box to let cold air in and that hasn't
solved the problem. I firmly reinserted the card into the agp slot.
Still the same problem...

Any ideas please?

 

[n]

PS

I have the latest nvidia drivers installed on my computer. Freshly
installed. I haven't installed anything from the CDs included with the
box though. It shouldn't be necessary if i have the reference drivers
from nvidia in anyway, should it?

 

[n]

Hello everybody!

I need to find a solution to this quickly or I cannot take the card
back to the shop.

I hope you can help.

Thanks.

 

[Brian Pemberton]

I opened up my box again.

On my leadtek card there is only one place to attach a power cable. I
had already attached the power cable from my psu to the graphics card.

I was thinking that the cable that was supplied by leadtek might be
able to be plugged into the card at this one place and then there might
be some way of attaching the two loose ends to other things, eg the PSU
and the mobo. But i now doubt that this is what should be done. I have
left the graphics card in the agp slot and it is linked to the psu by
one of the psu cables. (That cable is also connected at another point
to my dvd player, which it also powers.)

The cable supplied by Leadtek sounds like a power cable with a feed-through, to avoid taking up one of your power connectors. It
shouldn't be your problem.

My motherboard is a gigabyte ga6vtxd rev. 1.0.
It can hold two cpu but is only holding one, the pentium 3 1000/133.
There are 3 sticks of memory in the board making a total of about 750MB
of ram.

My mobo:
http://www.yoursite.com/pc-185414-2121-gigabyte-ga-6vtxd.aspx

I don't think the problem is power cables. What could it be? Cooling?
Well i took the side off the box to let cold air in and that hasn't
solved the problem. I firmly reinserted the card into the agp slot.
Still the same problem...

Taking the side off is probably not a good idea, and may even make the problem worse. The case is designed to direct air over the
various components, but it can only do this while the case is closed.

Any ideas please?

Well, it *could* be a faulty card. If the shop will swap it, you could eliminate that possibility. In fact, that's probably a good
first move.
Or it *could* be overheating. Case fans are relatively cheap and easy to install.
Have you got the latest BIOS for your mobo?

That's about all I can think of - sorry.

 

[n]

Thanks for the ideas.

I wonder if overheating could be the problem because i have never
managed to push the card to do anything more than surf the net and even
at the very very beginning of the 3d games it is causing problems,
before the card has a chance to heat up. Also I haven't seen it with a
temperature above 50c.

I have also tried installing all the relevant stuff from the
accompanying CDs and that hasn't helped either.

I think i am going to take it back to the shop and "upgrade" my system
back to the geforce3 ti200.

 

[n]

I believe i have solved the problem.

1 The slot on my mobo is AGPx4. But the graphics card is AGPx8. It
played but wasn't intended for that slot.

2 Gigabyte the mobo makers said that the important thing was to have
at least 28A on the 3.3DC output line. I am meant to have 30 but
maybe i just don't have enough juice there...

I returned it to the shop.

Now i wonder what would be the very best 4xAGP graphics card to get
for my system? Is it a good bang for the buck?

THanks!

 

[Ed Light]

A 6600GT uses almost no 3.3v amperage - it's mostly on the 12v.

8x AGP cards are backwards compatible with 4x slots.

There is almost no performance hit in a 4x slot.


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[Ragemaster Randy]

Problem: My newly upgraded graphics card isn't playing 3d games.


Before i upgraded my graphics card to an a6600gt 128mb tdh leadtek
winfast i was able to play 3d graphics games on my computer eg silent
hunter 3.

Now when i try to play the game instead of seeing the characters faces
i see polygons and / or the game plays ok but freezes when i am about
to sink a ship and / or the system reboots for no apparent reason.

I have installed fresh drivers and the mobo bios is up to date. The
gpu temperature at idle is about 50C.

How can i solve this problem.

* Have you patched up your games. Far cry was shit until I patched it.

* Have you completely removed all your previous driver files?

* When I got my Leadtek 6600 my 3d games did exactly the same as yours.
- I also installed an extra 512mb at the time and had to bring the ram
timing down to default
- I made sure the power connector was direct from the PSU. Not one that was
also attached to another device eg HDD
- The sound card was a Live! and I went back to Microsofts drivers instead
of Creatives.

Now everything is OK.