6600 GT AGP help.

[xapexcivicx]

This is a thread my friend started on hardforum.com for me.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=986388

I'm waiting activation on that site, but I figure maybe somebody from here could help me. Ever since I put the card in I've been getting random artifacts every now and then. When I run ATI tool sometimes on default it gives me artifacts, so I underclock it. Then underclocking gives me artifacts, so I set it to default.

Right now i have it barely overclocked, and I haven't gotten any artifacts.

Specs are
Pentium 4 1.8 ghz (dunno the FSB)
Dell OEM mobo.
512 SSDRAM
just upgraded from my friend to a 450w PSU (old was 250w)
and now the 6600 GT AGP 128 Meg.


I just played black and white 2 and I can run the game on high with no AA and I don't get any artifacts.
Then I play LFS and I get minors ones every 20 seconds or so.
Then I tried battlefield 2 demo, and it just flat out crashes on me, but I think that might just be my RAM.

Please help :shy: This is driving me horribly mad:schwitz:

Okay.........so now OC gives me artifacts, and I now have it horribly underclocked.
AWESOME. Defective card you think?

[Spurs]

Have you uninstall the ATI drivers ? Maybe it's from there, I also have a 6600GT AGP 128 Mo and it runs good, no o/v yet. :)
If you have uninstalled them, maybe it is a defective card, but I am not sure 100% that is a defective card, so wait for others' answers :shrug:

[Noccy]

ati tool and a Nvidia geforce doesnt sound like a good combo to me.
suggest u remove atitool ,remove your video drivers, reboot
install new drivers and test again
if your problem stays try downloading coolbits (official nvidia clocking tool,found here http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815) and underclock (so lower then standard..not just lower then your current overclock) both core and mem by about 5%

If that doesnt help either.. ease up your systemmemory timings in your bios and underclock your processor also (this is assuming u dont simply have a heatproblem or similar gremlin) and try again

Overclocking often kills graficcard's memory... resulting in a dead card, or if u are "lucky", artifacts.


If u do find the fault, try and slowly, 1step at a time, go higher up till u reach the point where u get artifacts again ,then back 1 step down et voila u shouldnt have any artifacts anymore

[xapexcivicx]

ati tool and a Nvidia geforce doesnt sound like a good combo to me.
suggest u remove atitool ,remove your video drivers, reboot
install new drivers and test again
if your problem stays try downloading coolbits (official nvidia clocking tool,found here http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815) and underclock (so lower then standard..not just lower then your current overclock) both core and mem by about 5%

If that doesnt help either.. ease up your systemmemory timings in your bios and underclock your processor also (this is assuming u dont simply have a heatproblem or similar gremlin) and try again

Overclocking often kills graficcard's memory... resulting in a dead card, or if u are "lucky", artifacts.


If u do find the fault, try and slowly, 1step at a time, go higher up till u reach the point where u get artifacts again ,then back 1 step down et voila u shouldnt have any artifacts anymore

Thanks for the quick response. I uninstalled all the drivers but I guess they are still there? I'm gonna run drivercleaner 3 right now. I'll report back in a bit. Keep the suggestions coming, because I really don't feel like sending this thing back.

[xapexcivicx]

Yeah thanks man, that did the trick. Card runs good now. Medium settings in BF2 :) Seriously, thank you :)

It turns out there were 10 files from my old drivers that still existed in my system32 folder. Go figure

[P5YcHoM4N]

Errmm... can I just say one thing.

BOTTLE NECKED!

The proc and ram will bottle neck your card no end. You'll never be able to let it get a full run because your PC hasn't got the power to run it to it's fullest.

[xapexcivicx]

Besides upgrading, any way I could fix that?

[Knives22]

Nope, i have a 6600GT, with a AMD Athlon 64 3200+. I still have a bottleneck, but i run BF2 on high settings, and i play LFS at 1600x1200. I would deffinetly up the CPU if ur mobo isnt outta date.