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| Thread ID: 64084 | 2005-12-02 12:24:00 | Help! Problems with 6600GT | my6600hatesme (9349) | Press F1 |
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| 409468 | 2005-12-08 18:09:00 | I have the latest divers for my mobo (they come with windows, apparently) - The latest drivers for you MB do NOT come with Windows. Download the latest ones from your MB manufacturers website. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 409469 | 2005-12-08 19:17:00 | I second the MB driver download, however I have never had to install MB driver for any board to get a 6600GT working under XP. Certainly have had to in the past with older boards and other cards, but not the generation of board you have. Check the 4x/8x AGP setting (to 8X), change the APG aperature size to 128MB, I doubt these will help much but give it a go. I am now a little suspicious you may simply have a duff card. Have you got a 2nd PC or a friends PC you can chuck it into? The other possibility is you have another problem in your system that is not the VC, ie overheating CPU, unstable power from PSU or failing MB etc. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 409470 | 2005-12-10 02:35:00 | OK, I have tried the card in a friend's PC and it works fine, and I also tried his card (GF4Ti) in my PC and it has the same problem. (Although it flicked a blue screen with some odd text on it before rebooting, instead of freezing. But at the same place in starting windows). So it's probably not the graphics card (I think). A friend told me that there are incompatibility issues with many new gfx cards and VIA chipsets. I do have a chip-like thing on my motherboard that has "VIA" on it... Some people in the VIA forums are also complaining of problems, although not exactly like this. I flashed my motherboard bios to the newest non-beta version. Still no change. I don't know how to change my AGP aperature size. No settings referring to it in the "press del to enter setup" bios. My motherboard is a GA-7DXE (Gigabyte). Here's what's on their their website about no newer drivers: "www.gigabyte.com.tw AGP Rate is on 4X and can't be put up any higher. The NVidia "AGP settings" window says the max agp rate for gpu, chipset, and os are all 4X. And the cpu is only 33 degrees (C) according to everest. ??????????? |
my6600hatesme (9349) | ||
| 409471 | 2006-02-16 22:21:00 | Just for reference, in case anyone else looks at this, I got a new motherboard, and after reinstalling windows the problem was fixed. YAY! |
my6600hatesme (9349) | ||
| 409472 | 2006-02-17 07:13:00 | i have the exact same gf6600GT from L3Gaynd didnt' read ur problem but i thought id say i have same card @ 550mhz core and 1ghz ram. works fine but sometimes my pc crashes and reboots or makes this loud repeating noise like a high frequency repeating machine lol.... gah |
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