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Ok,

I spent some petty cash buyng a new computer. It's got a Gainward 6600GT 128MB gpu in it.

When I try to watch demos and play amusing 3D-games, the machine will crash and burn. Specifically, the graphics hang and the sound jitters. Like, a cd that's got scratches in it.

I press CtrlAltDel, but nothing happens. Luckily, I have a swedish button, and when I push it, several swedes come out from the machine and it restarts.

I like the swedes to remain in the machine and demos and amusing 3D games to run smoothly with no crash. How do I solve this problem?

DX9.0c and latest nVidia drivers. The card is PCI-E.

you need more http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=20451 imo

here's the solution:

1. slap yourself until you bleed if you didn't get a warranty

2. return the thing

3. get one that works in return

do you have an adequate power suppy for the 6600? if you got it with the machine it should be fine, but if you bought some cheap machine and tossed the 6600 in there the power suppy may not be good enough. also it is not overheating is it? don't run your computer in the oven, keep it in a nice cool place. also are you using the latest drivers? check www.nvidia.com | drivers

Mr Twist Laser, please post more technical details, so that I can think about it.

i actually have some stability issues with my 6600 GT as well and i hadn't thought about the power supply at all... hmm

The machine is a Shuttle SB95P. The power supply should be adequate as well as the heat. This machine has 5 fans cooling it.

Should I get hacked drivers or go for nVidias?

I want to see demos!

you should also check the overclocking settings of your graphics drivers.

some companies actually distribute drivers with overclocking enabled by default (idiots).

ryg :
well if the frequency was proven to be safe in terms of overheating and electrical safety, then why not allow overclocking ? in the nvidia drivers, it shows an agreement which quite popularly describes why you should not touch it alltogether if you have no clue.
even if you confirm that, it runs multiple tests with selected frequency before finally allowing to apply it.
finally, once driver replaced with a new one, the freq settings return to normal ( default ) and the overclocking tab is hidden again.

If someone ( be it salesman or the user ) walks so
many barriers and eventually fucks the thing up, who is an idiot then, and what is vendor's fault eventually ?

except it often isn't.

and i'm talking about graphics cards that come with overclocking enabled in the default drivers supplied on the driver cd. chaos had this problem when he bought his gf6600gt (over a year back), which had weird zbuffer problems all over the place. before returning it, he went through the driver settings (just to be sure), and it turned out that thing was considerably overclocked by default. he returned everything to the nominal clock rate and hasn't had a problem with the card since.

that's precisely why i mention it - because i know this does happen and can cause weird problems, not because i want to heap blame on anyone.

sounds like overheating to me, i had similar issues with a overclocked Radeon.. changed cooler and then never had those issues back again..

my pc is slow. pentium D 2.4GHz. it has a 9800xt 1gb mem and 2 sata hd (not in raid.) it's slower than my old machine. i can't even record audio without jittering.

what should i do?

keep using your old computer

get an old tascam and record straight to that..

ryg : now that's quite a story. could never imagine such may happen. it seems i misunderstood your statement as i thought of "overclocking menu enabled by default", not "default frequency settings higher than recommended", and i like it when i can control everything possible without applying some mysterious 3rd-party registry tweaks to enable some tabs here and there, that wasnt about finding the guilty. I think it's sorted out now :)
cheers.

problem located: fan doesn't work.

I'm buying a REAL gpu on monday. x850gt.

I can add that the hard drive is located almost above the 110 degree gpu and it was over 60 degrees :)

what a fanny computar...

seems you found out the major drawback with barebones.
that's the reason I am still hanging to my midi tower: plenty of space for four hdds, two optical drives and a terratec 6fire 5,25" frontpanel.

Well, the gpu core temperature is supposed to be 45 degrees which is well below the safe max of the HDD. Ya! And there's even two fans cooling that area in the box, so they did think of that after all.