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Black Shuck
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Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:22 pm Post subject:
6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but
as soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid.
Does not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
I got the latest NVidia driver down, also the latest nforce chipset
driver, and also updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest, but it made
no difference.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Faulty card??
Incompatability???
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YanquiDawg
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Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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What size power supply?And,what brand?
| Quote: | A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but
as soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid.
Does not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others). |
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Black Shuck
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Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:31 am Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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On 18/12/2004 19:27 YanquiDawg got up from the bar and shouted..:
| Quote: | What size power supply?And,what brand?
A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but
as soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid.
Does not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
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Dunno, it's a generic PSU in a generic case. Could this be the culprit.
Any idea how much current a 6800LE requires?
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Pete D
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Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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A good quality 300W will be enough for an LE.
"Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On 18/12/2004 19:27 YanquiDawg got up from the bar and shouted..:
What size power supply?And,what brand?
A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but
as soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid.
Does not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
Dunno, it's a generic PSU in a generic case. Could this be the culprit.
Any idea how much current a 6800LE requires?
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"This dog don't give a feck..." |
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Mirek Fídler
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Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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"Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> píse v diskusním príspevku
news:41c47568$0$49711$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
| Quote: | A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but as
soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid. Does
not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
I got the latest NVidia driver down, also the latest nforce chipset
driver, and also updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest, but it made
no difference.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Faulty card??
Incompatability???
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Stay away from 6800LE. Almost all are faulty, at least MSI and Gainward have
more than 80% failures (try google).
Mirek |
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Black Shuck
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Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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On 19/12/2004 09:27 Mirek Fídler got up from the bar and shouted..:
| Quote: | "Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> píse v diskusním príspevku
news:41c47568$0$49711$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but as
soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid. Does
not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
I got the latest NVidia driver down, also the latest nforce chipset
driver, and also updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest, but it made
no difference.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Faulty card??
Incompatability???
Stay away from 6800LE. Almost all are faulty, at least MSI and Gainward have
more than 80% failures (try google).
Mirek
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Have done a google search, and got a mixed mag of results. Do you have
a specific link that states the >80% failure rate (which seems VERY high).
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John Eckart
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Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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If it has a generic PSU, then that's probably the problem, or at least a problem.
Generic PSU's are such crap!
Get a quality (heavy) name brand unit.
"Pete D" <no@email.com> wrote in message news:%t1xd.77727$K7.6362@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| Quote: | A good quality 300W will be enough for an LE.
"Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 18/12/2004 19:27 YanquiDawg got up from the bar and shouted..:
What size power supply?And,what brand?
A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but
as soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid.
Does not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
Dunno, it's a generic PSU in a generic case. Could this be the culprit.
Any idea how much current a 6800LE requires?
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Pete D
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Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:13 am Post subject:
Re: 6800LE Locking XP in 3D Games. |
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"John Eckart" <JEckart@mail.com> wrote in message
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If it has a generic PSU, then that's probably the problem, or at least a
problem.
Generic PSU's are such crap!
Get a quality (heavy) name brand unit.
"Pete D" <no@email.com> wrote in message
news:%t1xd.77727$K7.6362@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| Quote: | A good quality 300W will be enough for an LE.
"Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:41c4858e$0$29769$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
On 18/12/2004 19:27 YanquiDawg got up from the bar and shouted..:
What size power supply?And,what brand?
A friend at work just bought a new 6800LE AGP card, Installed it in his
Asus A7N8X-X with a nForce2 chipset. The card runs fine in Windows, but
as soon as anything 3D related is started, it locks ther system solid.
Does not matter which game (tried Doom3 UT2004 and some others).
Dunno, it's a generic PSU in a generic case. Could this be the culprit.
Any idea how much current a 6800LE requires?
I personally use an Antec 430 Truepower even though the previous Aopen 300W |
was coping. |
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