6800GT SLI crashing
Finding occasional crashes while playing games:
a) Game freezes and a reboot is required b) Monitor goes to standby, computer reboots but the monitor doesn't come out of standby. Reboot is required. Also, when I'm just on the windows desktop the screen sometimes goes blank momentarily (which normally happens when i switch resolutions) and I hear the two-note sound that Windows normally does when a peripheral is plugged into it e.g. usb hub etc. My system config is: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard with two 256MB Inno3D Geforce 6800GT cards, AMD64 XP4000+, 1GB RAM, 2 x 200GB SATA Hard Disks, HEC 550W PSU, Windows XP. Any ideas? |
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:41:18 +0100, Mal Franks
wrote: Finding occasional crashes while playing games: a) Game freezes and a reboot is required b) Monitor goes to standby, computer reboots but the monitor doesn't come out of standby. Reboot is required. Also, when I'm just on the windows desktop the screen sometimes goes blank momentarily (which normally happens when i switch resolutions) and I hear the two-note sound that Windows normally does when a peripheral is plugged into it e.g. usb hub etc. My system config is: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard with two 256MB Inno3D Geforce 6800GT cards, AMD64 XP4000+, 1GB RAM, 2 x 200GB SATA Hard Disks, HEC 550W PSU, Windows XP. Any ideas? CPU overheating might explain the two-tone sound, but would not fully explain the screen-blank... if it is simultaneous with the two-tone... you did not make the time-relationship between two-tone and screen-blank explicitly clear in your posting. Or how the two-tone finally went away... power-down or what ?? or Power supply incapable of supplying the required +12V current to both CPU (and disk drives) plus the 2 video cards. Does the power supply have dual +12V 18 amps ? The HEC 550W PSU is not on the SLI-certified list... See:- http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build.html and look at the bottom of the page. The fact that it is not on the list may not necessarily disqualify it, but the +12V amperage ratings ( and any tech reviews of the power-supply ) would need to be closely scrutinized. John Lewis |
"John Lewis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:41:18 +0100, Mal Franks wrote: Finding occasional crashes while playing games: a) Game freezes and a reboot is required b) Monitor goes to standby, computer reboots but the monitor doesn't come out of standby. Reboot is required. Also, when I'm just on the windows desktop the screen sometimes goes blank momentarily (which normally happens when i switch resolutions) and I hear the two-note sound that Windows normally does when a peripheral is plugged into it e.g. usb hub etc. My system config is: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard with two 256MB Inno3D Geforce 6800GT cards, AMD64 XP4000+, 1GB RAM, 2 x 200GB SATA Hard Disks, HEC 550W PSU, Windows XP. Any ideas? CPU overheating might explain the two-tone sound, but would not fully explain the screen-blank... if it is simultaneous with the two-tone... you did not make the time-relationship between two-tone and screen-blank explicitly clear in your posting. Or how the two-tone finally went away... power-down or what ?? or Power supply incapable of supplying the required +12V current to both CPU (and disk drives) plus the 2 video cards. Does the power supply have dual +12V 18 amps ? The HEC 550W PSU is not on the SLI-certified list... See:- http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build.html and look at the bottom of the page. The fact that it is not on the list may not necessarily disqualify it, but the +12V amperage ratings ( and any tech reviews of the power-supply ) would need to be closely scrutinized. John Lewis I agree that it's probably a power supply issue (inadequate 12 volt rail?), but it couldn't hurt to disable AGP Fast Writes and see if that helps. |
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