*BiGBonES**

I traced the problem back to a faulty power extension lead (plug this into mains socket, then this provide power for 4 plugs). Plugging the psu directly into the mains worked a treat. Kind of basic yes I know but I usually have all the wires stored away out of sight and this didnt catch my attention early on.

Well, problems are still occuring, I benchmarked at 5770 (benchmark 3d 2003), which isn't good for my specs correct??

1) When I installed the graphics card and the system failed for the first time, on the next boot up it told me that there was not enough power and that the graphics card was lowering its power requirement. Is this low power setting still on? I've gone through all my driver settings and options but I cant find nothing related to power, so is this automatically controlled?

2)I noticed my gpu temp is at 127 inside the gpu, and about 75 outside (celcius) - are these good temperatures? I ask thi because there is a tv card directly infront of the graphics card which may b blocking airflow leading to the g-card heatin up and underperforming

3) Any other possible solutions for my poor benchmark? I can get a reformat done this coming weekend.

I have the same vid card, and I got the same "not enough power" nvidia message shortly before my PSU gave it up amd croaked.

 

Im still thinking underpowered psu.

Can you post the specs on your new one?

Its the top one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Onl...alTake_456.html

Can someone check through my specs to see if somethings up? (copied from benchmark 3d specs page). Im n00bishly concerned about the motherboard aperture size being 64MB under the AGP settings?? I dont understand what it means but my card is 128mb - anyway see the bold highlight for that.

Display Device 1/1

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Driver 8.4.2.1

 

Description NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Manufacturer NVIDIA

Total Local Video Memory 128 MB

Total Local Texture Memory 128 MB

Total AGP Memory 64 MB

Driver File nv4_disp.dll

Driver Version 8.4.2.1

Driver Date 3-9-2006

Driver WHQL Certified true

Max Texture Width 4096 px

Max Texture Height 4096 px

 

Max User Clipping Planes 6

Max Active Hardware Lights 8

Max Texture Blending Stages 8

Fixed Function Textures In Single Pass 8

Vertex Shader Version 3.0

Pixel Shader Version 3.0

Max Vertex Blend Matrices 0

Max Texture Coordinates 8

VGA Memory Clock 900.0 MHz

VGA Core Clock 299.3 MHz

Motherboard Info

Supported Slot Types ISA, PCI, AGP

Manufacturer ASUSTek Computer Inc.

Model P4P8T

Version Rev 1.xx

BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.

BIOS Version 1008.003

BIOS Release Date 10/19/2005

BIOS Properties Plug and Play, Flash, AGP

 

AGP

Revision 3.0

Rate 4x, 8x (8x enabled)

Available Rate 0x0000000c

Selected Rate 0x00000008

Aperture Size 64 MB

Sideband Addressing supported (enabled)

Fast Write supported (enabled)

Card Slots

Slot 1/2 (AGP)

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Order 0

Designation AGP

Type AGP

Characteristics 3.3V, Shared, PME Signal

Data Bus Width 32 b

Details In Use, Long

Device Class Display Adapter

Manufacturer NVIDIA

Driver Version 8.4.2.1

Driver Date 3-9-2006

IRQ 16

Just a quick reminder of my history:

I have an asus s-presso, 3ghz pentium 4, 1 gb ram, 460watt psu and a 6600GT.

Everytime I try and run a graphically demanding program (anything more than web browsing pretty much) my computer will die on me.

I thought I had the problem fixed when I bought a new psu as supposedly the others were not powerful enough. Having spent $100ish on the psu, im pretty tinkled to find that my problem still exists. I'm so annoyed that I just think the whole thing is a joke right now. 5months down the line, and I still havent sorted this problem out.

Today (first day home from uni),I finally got to reunite my 6600GT and computer with the new PSU. I set it all up, downloaded benchmark 3d, tried to run it and a couple of seconds into things my computer dies.

When I booted up, the nvidia tool displayed a message saying that my graphics card was not getting enough power, and that it had lowered the power demands or something of that nature. I tried benchmarking again, but once again ther computer died. In a final attempt I swapped the power connectors around and put every setting on lowest at a 400x200 resolution or something and the same problem occured.

Can anyone explain this? I'm thinking its a motherboard problem. I know this system can run my card, it ran it well for a couple of days before this problem started.

Please help

I'm going to put a 5700LE in there tomorrow, but that is not as power demanding as the 6600GT, so is this worth it?

I'm going to try and put my 6600GT in another computer tomorrow aswell to make sure that isn't the problem. The computer I'm putting it into doesn't have enough power connectors though. I'm wondering if I can power the graphics card by just using my psu without have any of the other psu cables plugged into anything else?

Also, can someone explain about the voltage/watts these cards need. Is it possible that my card needs more/less, have i got the cables mixed up?

If we get rid of all the solutions here then I'm going down to the tech shop because I'm sick of things not working... I better stop ranting before I start, so please help!

Woohoooo I completed it. Level 30 is the last level. They reveal a cheat at the end

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(press q a z on the menu ebfore the start of the game and you get 1000 bombs)

A nice little exploit to help kill more people is to fire towards the left of the base, then drag your mouse to the right side of the base whilst the shot is still coming out, resulting in you killing men on both the left and right side in one shot!

what date was the before?

Thats a really really good improvement, hopefully inspiration for others to keep working hard! Your looking great!

Hows the paying by credit/debit cards without a paypal account set up going?

How much have we raised so far, have we got an arm and a leg into the camp yet?

You guys are n00bs, over here we drink out drink out of jugs or have someone pour a pint down a funnel going straight into a pro's mouth. On special nights we have the old yard of ale contest, the yard glass being about 2 pints. Occasionally we use pint glasses If we ever get plastic pints at the student union bar, they are always see-through, none of this blue or red crap

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Is it me or is the weapon speed upgrade totally ineffective? I wasted three upgrades on that and hardly noticed any difference

But I guess it would closely resemble a non-profit. I know we have a bit of reserve in case our numbers fall for a month or two, but other than that, its pretty much break even from what I understand.

 

 

That is the issue I think; nobody knows the numbers, not even you, a board member, if I am hearing you right.

That was quite uncalled for.

Fatty could be a mafia boss because he has agents all over north america (even a very reliable link in the UK ). He has control of the online poker network, making friends with the admin and getting people muted and what have you, he could probably even rig the matches because he has so many agents playing!

He flies to FLA and goes to dinner with a few important people from the community, they are probably repaying some sort of favour So where ever he goes he'll have people here and there looking out for him!

All we need to do now is find the other online gaming community families and start a full out war.

I'm wondering why American people drink their drinks out of special cups. In all your films like american pie and road trip, in all the parties the students are drinking their alcohol in plastic cups and never bottles or cans, or even normal plastic cups, they always use the special american cups.

I'm asking this because there are quite a few american's on campus, and everytime I walk past their window when i'm off out, they are always laying out their special cups and pouring the drinks into them before drinking! WHY!!!?!?!?!

I've been to all the local shops and I cant find these special cups, they must be so special that they need to import them from their motherland

So, why are they so special and why do you guys drink from cups when your young?

I like how they managed to get a typo right in the comic.

I made the same typo in a forum topic! I feel for the guy

http://www.gotfrag.com/css/files/251/

 

It looks like it came out last August... but are they still working on it?

I think that was a different version of the map by a different map maker, although I'm not completely sure. Its hard to tell whats going on in the cal forums between all the flaming and the actual posts. Should be out soon though!

Wooooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooo

Finished my first year of law.

Constitutional law exam = went well

Criminal law exam = owned me

Contract law exam = good good

Land law exam = pwned it.

I'd like to take this oppurtunity to laugh at everyone who is yet to take their final exam! Hopefullly I don't end up in these forums at the end of a drinking spree See you in the servers on monday

uumm...I mean...

pwnt?

thats what other ppl say when vids are posted twice

no offense

I think he was saying pwnt to me discom.

so discom my friend, you also just got pwnt! This topic is owning us all

I'm hearing 12 more hours till release (i check too many forums these days, but everything is so fun when you revise).

What about this de_villa map, anyone heard of that?

I'm looking forward to this map, read a thread in the cal forums highlighting all the bad points of the map. I think they have all been fixed (one guy made about 50screenshots of bad things) and the maker said they are all fixed.

Well I see where your coming from, that link wasn't in the easiest place to find, but I wasn't referring directly to your example. Its not a problem, but it keeps occuring, another example being the fedex planes video with SJ and ZD.

redbull do too many cool sponsorships for people to stop drinking them. I dont really drink them anyway, but that doesn't mean others have to stop!

I think everyone who keeps posting up random links needs to start double checking whether anybody else has posted them up. I keep seeing lots of similar topics

I remember staying up till 2am last year to watch the finals, they were good fun, fatty's filming and banter on teamspeak was quite amusing too.

I might learn how to become a hacker. That guy from britain who hacked into the usa military computer system has inspired me.

Sql sounds a little too complicated.

Does anyone have any good guides for learning the basics of flash? I googled it and most of the results are requiring me to purchase a package. Are there any free tools out there or good trials?

Learn SQL.

Whats sql all about? I know a lot of website packages include mysql but beyond that I'm lost.