6600 Gaming problem :-(

[Frostmind]

Hi
I have just bought an new geforce 6600 AGP card. When i try to play any games or run 3d mark the grahpics get totaly distorded with triangels everywhere and discoloration. I've googled for answers to the problem but havn't found any solution that works.. aperently im not the only one with this problem.

I've tried diffrent drivers and aperture sizes..

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

/Krister

[JamesDax]

Well, the most obvious question is do you have your card pluged in. And if yes, then whats the wattage on your psu?

[Frostmind]

Jepp, its pluged in. My psu gott 300w and that should be sufficent acording to nvidia..

I've also tried unplugging everything but the video card and the main harddrive.. but the problem still remains... it didn'n make any difference

[OldOfEvil]

How is the heat? I noticed my buddies 6600 ( PCIe ) tends to get pretty hot, mostly because the little doodads that keep the heatsink down are somewhat weak so it doesn't sit as firmly as it should.

My only other guess would be drivers, or perhaps just a bad card. Also help if you give us more stats on what your currently running in your rig. :)

[Frostmind]

The temperatures: Gpu 41C (105F), RAM 50C (122F)

A7V classic
Athlon C 1300
768 Mb ram
Asus N6600
Audigy 2 zs

Tell me if you want any more info

[sharangad]

The temperatures: Gpu 41C (105F), RAM 50C (122F)
A7V classic
Athlon C 1300



That's a Via motherboard if I'm not mistaken. I think it would be a good idea to upgrade to the latest VIA Hyperion/4-in-1 drivers and go to the latest Forceware version. There was a known issue with SiS chipsets with triangles appearing, but this was fixed waay back in Forceware 67.03.

[arunabh]

which drivers have you tried ?
i had problems with ForceWare 81.98[whql]
but FW 81.95[whql] is working fine for me....
i have an asus 6600GT [agp]

[Frostmind]

Thanks for the answers


sharangad: I've tried the newest via. That didn't help me

arunabh: I've tried 81.98 and 71.89 and the one that came withe the card (71.24).. and one more.. dont remember. I will try the one you sudgested.

[Frostmind]

Those driver didn't solve my problem... :(

I'm beginning to think that either the card is broken or that my computer is to old for that videocard. This is not fun at all :(

[Redeemed]

Well, if it isn't the drivers, and you are certain that it isn't the psu- I can think of one thing.

I am not at all familiar with the board you are running. It is evidently socket A. But what I'm wondering is, does it support AGP4 or 8x? Though I think if you're running a 1300 it should be atleast 4x, if it doesn't support either AGP4x or 8x, then that COULD be the problem. I don't think anything newer than the GF4s can run fine on AGP 2x without some sort of problems.

Kind of a far fetched answer, I know, but it is better than nothing. So, do you know if your mobo supports atleast AGP4x?

[Frostmind]

I've got AGP4x.
I don't know if I can say the I'm totalty sure that the PSU aint guilty... but it did'nt make any differance when i unplugged 3 harddrives and 2 dvd players.. shouldnt that have made a difference if the problem was power related?

[Frostmind]

I've now tried with an 500w psu in my computer... but the problem still remains.
:(

[bender_the_bot]

hello,

i´ve got some probs with my 6600 AGP,too.
After running Battlefield 2 for some minutes, there are heavy graphic bugs.

I tried different force wares including that one on the BF2 DVD (77.30) and even older ones. But the problem still appears.

I played with a radeon 9250 before and everything was fine. (except: resolution, lightfx, antialiasing, textures, shadows....;) )

my cfg.
Athlon 2100+
1 GB DDR Ram
ECS K7S5A (latestbios / sis vga drivers)
Game Theatre XP (ext.sound)
xp pro (latest updates)
BF2 (latest updates 1.12)

any idea ?

bender (nana2)

[Daydre@m]

Well I have the nearly same system and I upgraded to an Asus N6600 with 512Mb DDR 400Mhz Kingston and had random crashes in latest games , and it took me around a week to figure out my problem .

Total System :

Athlon XP 2000+
(Spektek) 256MB DDR 266Mhz + ( Kingston ) 512MB DDR 400Mhz
Gigabyte GA-7VKML-p ( VIA + AGP 4x)
300Watt PSU

Now I thought the crashes were related to memory , I tried taking out one stick at a time but crashes were still there . I changed VIA drivers , changed GPU drivers but still the problems were there . I thought it was heating up of my CPU since the idling temperatures were 49 degrees but nope the temperatures didn't even touch 55 and before that the games crashed . I was very confused thought about RMA but just day before yesterday I increased processor Voltage and WHOELAA , it worked . Prime 95 was stable , HL-2 ands Quake 4 ran fine .

Anyway my GPU idles at 31 / 37 which is quite lower than your GPU . I think you have a temperature problem .

Also I remember my cousin had such problems in games and the problem was the drivers of his chipset were conflicting with the GPU drivers , so uninstall them too and then see .

I have also have a friend who had the same GPU and sound card as you and the problem was his sound card drivers conflicting with the GPU drivers ( but his games were crashing not showing artifacts ) .

Try all of this , I hope it helps but I think your temperatures are quite high . Try opening one case side and install some fans , it should lower the temperatue bu 5 or 10 degrees .

[Frostmind]

Hi, thanks for the answers. I've just tried unplugging and uninstalling my soundcard. and then i reinstalled my video card. It didn't help

I've also tried the temperature issiue. I opened the windows on my appartment (I live way up in sweden). that lowerd my Gpu to 20C and my Ram to 22C. It's really cold here now :) But as always the problem still remains :(

To night i shall try the card in my friends computer.. I'lll be back with the results

[Frostmind]

There is nothing wrong with the card... I worked perfectly in my friends computer! It must be some kind of compability problem with my computer.

The 6600 should work with AGP4x right??

Or is my A7V classic to old? :(