Crashing Gfx Card 6600 GT

hi every one jsut brought a new gfx card it seems fine apprently on everythgin else but after playing guild wars in a mission area or an were else u can fight. after a lil while i eather get an err message or i get the BSOD (blue screen of death) and then reboot but i was wondring if any one new any known issus with thie card or any one else that has this problem that new of any way of fixing it becuse its just frstrating now i cant play at all for more then ide say max of 45 min with out my computer crashing or my game getting an error

Thanx if any one helps.

Firstly; Is this the AGP version? If so, did you plug in a power lead from the power supply unit into the white molex connector on the graphics card? This is critically important.

Secondly; If it's not an AGP graphics card, or if the lead is plugged in properly, then is the card itself radiating a lot of heat?

yah the fan power cables pluged in im not taly silly yah its the apg virsion ive been scanning forums all day found ou tthat a LOT of people have this problem also its not just that it scrashes when i go to enter missions the image for the missionis totaly scrambled im using a suggestion on one of the other forums atm to use older drivers for the card apprently thay work better. but ive yet to see a diffrance yet i ahvent had a blue sccreen as of yet but i ahve scrashed onece .. the computer its self seems quite cool and the card dosent seem to be produseing a major amount of heat no so im not sure its an over heating issus.

That's weird. Have you tried the Forceware 71.24 driver? That's worked for a lot of people with similar problems.

yah i tryed that to ive been suggested to try the 67.03 drives quite old but thay have worked slightly.. i dont get blue screens any more but i still freeze when ide of tended to blue screen insteead now, i know im getting an error but my games frozen infront of the error and all i can do to get rid of it is hit esc twice witch of corse closes the report ...... and also somthing i didnt add i dont tink is when i enter missions the spash screen with the pritty pic is totaly scrambled and jumbled up dont no if that tells u anything. but im really stumped.

I have one of these and its been no problem.
My drivers have not been updated for approx 1 month, maybe its the new drivers?

nah becuse im useing ht older drivers now the 67.03 ones. mind telling me if u know what drivers your running and i could give them a try i gess.. the card came with drives but neather of thos make it any better infact one of them makes it really bad.

Just out of curiosity, are you using a driver cleaner like the one from www.guru3d.com before installing different drivers? Not doing so could give you the same problem or similar problems every time.

yah ive jsut resently started yousing it that MIGHT be why the new drivers didnt work befor but the problem is i installed the newst drivers befor ANY other driver at all so that wasent it its miffed me totaly.

Okay, good. I always tell people to use that, it solves a lot of headaches. I'm just trying to think of anything else that could be causing the problem.

Just out of curiosity, what are your BIOS settings for the graphics card? There should be options for which AGP speed it runs at (4x or 8x) and which arpeture size it's using (64mB, 128mB, or 256mB).

oki now this question i dont know i got a good basic knoladge of stuff but i got my limits... howed i check out what it set to . but im pritty sure its agp 8... and its only a 128 meg card.

Okay, restart the computer and it should say "press DEL to enter setup" at the very beginning. When you do that, it'll open the BIOS, and it should say something about attached hardware and AGP settings somewhere. I'd check the specifics but it's 1am and I'm pretty under on medication right now, lol.

right i check that out and yah its like i thought its runing agp 8 and 128 is stocked right as well :/ i alsmost wish you were right and i was jsut being stupid lol

and also as i thought i just cleaned all the drivers off
and all there leftover bits and peaces tryed the newst drivers again and there totaly usless thay infact mess my desktop up so no hope in hell for games back to 67.03 now and hopfuly some one knows somthgn about this.

ahh.. What kind of power supply do you have?
These new cards are fairly power hungry and if it is starving the 12V rail on your PSU you will get a bluescreen and/ or vidual artifacts. just my take as this happened when i got my 6800GT a new power supply solved it for me.

I'm back, finally got a little sleep (three hours, grumble.)

Stayfrosty's suggestion is a good one. Let us know.

yah ive been told on another forum about my power supply not being up to scratch but i think it should be ok ... becuse my psu is a 350w

and this is what i got told from guildwars techys


instal sp2 that should work

lol nope that failed now have annoying new updates on sp2 lol


[Edit] sorry i ment 400w psu

BSoDs are pretty much always driver/hardware related these days.

You didn't mention which OS you were running.

Check for BIOS updates for your motherboard.
Driver updates for your motherboard (including VIA 4in1 updates from via if it's a VIA board.

You might also want to run a test on your PCs memory. Grab a copy of memtest and leave that running for a while.

im running windows xp pro sp 2 now.... *grumbles at guildwars support for making me install sp2*

oh and btw if u want a run down of the hardwear im running i'll post it here


Amd 2500+ withc is very strangly underclocking its self to 1.1 i cant fix that eva.
Mobo: asus VIA KT880 a7v880
400w PSU
6600GT agp
annd a normal sata drive with a soundblaster live. and a plane bod standred cd-rw so nothgin really amazing.