Faulty 6600GT? How do I tell?

Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it crashes
to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other times it
gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me on the blue
screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other times it's the
nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a card?
What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David

"David" wrote in message
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Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it
crashes to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other
times it gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me
on the blue screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other
times it's the nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a card?
What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David




Is it any particular game?

Andy

All the games that I try to play: San Andreas, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory,
Hitman: Contracts .................. so far.

David

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"David" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it
crashes to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other
times it gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me
on the blue screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other
times it's the nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a
card? What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David




Is it any particular game?

Andy

Have you installed the AGP GART drivers?


"David" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it
crashes to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other
times it gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me
on the blue screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other
times it's the nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a card?
What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David

Do you have more than one stick of memory installed? Try removing one and
see what happens then swap them over.

Andy








"David" wrote in message
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All the games that I try to play: San Andreas, Splinter Cell: Chaos
Theory, Hitman: Contracts .................. so far.

David

"Andrew" wrote in message
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"David" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it
crashes to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other
times it gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me
on the blue screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and
other times it's the nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a
card? What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David




Is it any particular game?

Andy

what kind of Power supply do you have, the new cards take a lot of power.

"David" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it
crashes to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other
times it gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me
on the blue screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other
times it's the nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a card?
What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David

Hi There,

I have had some problems with my PNY Verto 6600 GT card with some games one
in particular being Far Cry, before shelling out on More powerful and more
stable power supplies as I did, try rolling back the drivers to ver 71.89 or
67.66.

I did and the games now work great, the newer drivers don't seem to go down
well with the 6600 and some Games but are fine with the 6800 GT based
boards.

Good Luck

"David" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hello

I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it
crashes to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other
times it gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me
on the blue screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other
times it's the nv4.disp fault.

I have updated the BIOS on my mobo and card. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the latest drivers, all to no avail.

Are there programs out there that can check the hardware health of a card?
What else can I try?

Thanks very much for your attention and any advice you can give me.

David

David wrote:
I am having a big problem with my Gigabyte GV-N66T128D card.
Basically, my system crashes when I try to run a game. Sometimes it crashes
to the desktop and asks if I want to send an error report, other times it
gives me the blue screen of death. The information it gives me on the blue
screen varies. Sometimes it's a non page file fault and other times it's the
nv4.disp fault.

I used to have random lock-ups with my 6600gt but it disappeared after I
re-installed all my drivers (LAN, IDE, AGP, Nvidia, sound) and lowered
AGP speed to 4x.

Hi;
nv4.disp = PSU under powered most of the time.

Hello and thanks for helping,

To give more details about the problem:
Firstly, I can actually play the games, however, the crashes are random and
different. I do hold my breath when the actual gameplay is being loaded or
I've chosen to restart a level.

As stated, the BSOD states either the nv4.disp or a nonpage file fault. And
now a new one has appeared: "A wait operation, attach process, or a yield
was attempted from a DPC routine" It then gives the ***STOP: 0x00000000
along with another 4 sets of 0s.

Sometimes the system doesn't show the BSOD but just restarts or tries to
restart and leaves my monitor LED blinking.

I have tried taking out a stick of RAM, swapping them, using both of them on
their own and using Non-Dual channel. For a moment I thought one of the
sticks was faulty but now there seems to be no difference whichever method I
try.

My specs a
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton
2 x 512MB PC3200 400Mhz RAM (Kingston Value)
Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT AGP
Gigabyte GA-7N400PRO2 MOBO v.02 FK
Antec Sonata Midi Tower Trupower 380W PSU
Thermaltake Bigwater Cooling +VGA block.

Everything seemed to be working fine at one point. I'm going to play
Half-Life 2 for a while because if this crashes then it's certainly nothing
to do with new hardware. I've played this game with no crashes whatsoever
and I haven't changed any hardware since then. After that, and as advised,
I'll have a go at reinstalling all the MOBO drivers etc.

Many thanks again and please let me know if you've got anymore suggestions.
I REALLY appreciate it.

David