New 6600 Gt freezing up system

How much Video card memory is in there?
Did you configured the BIOS settings correctly and if not, did you tried having the card by itself instead of having 2-3?
 
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How much Video card memory is in there?
Did you configured the BIOS settings correctly and if not, did you tried having the card by itself instead of having 2-3?
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Uh, I just asked him that. ;) And he has already said that he tested with only one card. I also assume that you have already looked in device manager for conflicts, which there are NO warnings.
This might help:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/northrup_multimon.mspx
 
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Why don't you borrow his card and pop it in your pc, if you have the same problem it's probably the heatsink. I can see why you would want to look at other possibilities before assuming the heatsink is the problem though. Maybe it could be the drivers, I don't have any experience with the 6600GT's but drivers are a good start if you don't want to start looking at potential hardware problems.

How many games has he tested this card in?
 
Ah, 128MB!!! That's better. Now, BIOS is STILL right? :confused: (Oh, and the heatsink or something else may be damaged or manufactured incorrectly (slight imperfection). Can you do a physical inspection in the future?
 
we looked at that freaking card forever, there are no physical imperfections, like i said he got it brand new and its like a week old, but yeah i know what your talking about and there are no such marks on his card/ heatsink....
 
ok nm to the firmware.......

about the drivers, couldnt drivers cause problems with video modes that are not supporting, because if you remember i said in the very begining that the card runs in the windows environment and movies ok, but when you try to run any game it locks up
 
ok he told me that he ripped the heatsink off of the card today and that all of the thermal paste was on the heatsink and that none of it was on the actual chip itself....he didnt void the warranty or anything...so now what can he do to fix the problem....is here anyway to make the sink sit lower on the card or what?
 
OK, this is the friend with the card thats locking up... aka the one with the system this entire post is about.

I just took off the heatsink on the GPU and on the memory. I wiped off all the thermal grease that was there and replaced it with new grease. While doing so i noticed that the memory grease was pitch black, hard, and stuck to the heat sink. The gpu grease was just like the stuff i put on there, silver and very soft.

After doing so I put it back in my system, Made sure that the power cord connected to the video card was by its lone some. I disabled on board sound, took out every other pci card, and disabled things that were unnessesary (1394 controller, usb controller, onboard NIC).

Started up a few things. UT2004 will not even load up, Just goes black and either my computer will lock up, or it will restart automatically. 3dmark 2005 will run for like 20 seconds, and then it will lock up completly.

CS source will run if i run the video stress test. I was running it on 1600x1200 no AA and no vertical v-sync. I also was running it with trilinear filtering. It will go all the way through the stress test and give me my average. My average just happens to be 78fps.

However as soon as i try to join a game or start one, same thing happens, it locks up.

Last night i put in an extra 80 gig bypassing the raid controller, and loaded up windows xp 64bit edition. It ran awsome in windows but as soon as i tried to load up ut2004 it locked up again. I am going to put the video card in another pc tomorrow and see what kind of results i get with that.


Just to clarify everything heres the specs of my pc:

Dual amd Opteron 242's @ 1.6ghz
Tyan tiger k8w board (s2875)
1gig of corsair ddr400 ram.. Registered with ECC
2 western digital 80gig with 8mb cache striped.
and the MSI geforce 6600 gt AGP.
soundblaster live (removed for testing)

ive tried the following software configurations too.

windows xp
windows xp sp1
windows xp sp2 (currently using)
directx 8,9,9b, and 9.0c
Every driver variation i could think of

About the only step i can take next is to put the card in another machine. My 5200ultra was working fine with this system though, so it must be somethign with the card. We'll find out tomorrow.
 
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also i was going to try to update the firmware with msi's live update, but that won't run the activeX extentions on my pc for some reason or another... ill try doing that tomorrow on another pc too.
 
Okay, since the forum has been restored to an ealier version, what we talked about is gone (including all the freshest posts). Here's your solution:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=1949

Getting a heat sink that will actually work right makes all the difference. :)

Quote from the nvidia forum:
"yeah, it says in the description that it doesnt include the HSI bridge heatsink, that you have to have your own. and if the HSF and the HSI heatsink are one, then you're screwed.

hmm :\ i hope i dont have to do any cutting."

Well, since your friend ripped off the heatsink, I assume that you can now get a better one that will actually contact the card....a Zalman. :)
 
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