8800 GTS 512 - Hangs in EVERY game

Hey all,

I just got a hold of a brand spankin' new MSI 8800 GTS 512 OC, and I can't play a single damn game with it.

It looks fantastic and the frame rates are excellent, but only for a few minutes before the whole thing hangs up so bad, I gotta use the reset button to reboot. (No BSOD, just a freeze frame and sound looping)

Happens in EVERY game I tried, Crysis, WiC, Oblivion, HL2, Dirt and Bioshock demo.

At first I thought it might have been a bad driver install, so I removed all the drivers and ran Driver Cleaner to get rid of absolutely everything aswell as any potential remnants of the old ATI suite. Reinstalled the bundle driver, but got ditto.

So then I downloaded the newest Forceware WHQL driver 169.21 hoping this would do the trick....waaap....no suck luck, same story.

Checked the temps, and they were normal at 57/82 C, so that couldn't be it. I'm running it at factory OC 730/1840

So I thought, system instability? Ran Orthos for a few ages, but all was good (mind you it was workin just fine for 6 months with my old X1950XT)

Reckon I might have got screwed and landed a bad card.

Anyone else run into this, or got any ideas what might be causing the kafuffle?

I'd really appreciate a hand/opinion.

(E6600@3.2, P5K-Dlx, 2GB PC8500, WinXP, good air cooling)

PS. If you reply, Jesus will totally know and be all like "Hey man, you're allright! This guy...eh....EH? Yeah, this guy's allright"

 

what your Power supply watts ???

Minimum of a 500 Watts power supply for this card.

 

Corsair HX620W...should be juice aplenty. Running 1 optical, 2 HDDs, 3 fans in add. to mainboard and the graphics card...Corsair ran 8800GTX SLi on that PSU in their demos.

 

okay then since you had an ATI card before maybe they are still left over driver for your ati card in your computer.....

Try to remove and check if you have anything left from ATI.

 

That was one of the first things I did. Even got Driver Cleaner to remove any hidden leftovers of previous drivers. Still the same problem.

 

Hi SomaticM

Thanks for that post. I'm sorry I can't help you at the moment but I just want to say that I'm having almost exactly the same problem with almost the same PC specs.

I recently bought a new Inno3D 8800 GTS 512 video card (G92) and my computer now hangs, crashes or even occasionally has a BSOD when playing COD 4 and Medal of Honor Airborne (and possibly other games I have not tried yet). As with you, the only remedy from these crashes is to reboot the computer. This never happened with my previous card - an Asus 7950GT.

I'm running it on Windows XP Professional and I've tried both the drivers that came with the card and the new drivers v. 169.21 from NVidia.

The weird thing is that I can run FutureMark (and get pretty decent scores) and ATITools without artifacts – even when overclocking the card to the same specs as Asus’ TOP model. But playing especially COD4 always leads to a crash - even when playing the game at lower resolution.

Heat does not seem to be the problem. The card does run pretty hot but increasing the fan speed in RivaTuner takes care of that. Unfortunately the PC still crashes during game play. (And yes, the PC also crashes when my CPU is back to stock speed).

I was beginning to suspect that my PSU might have been the problem (although it should be more than big enough) but seeing that you have an identical problem with a more powerful PSU makes me lean toward driver issues. But why are there not more comments like this to be found on the web then?

Hope you (we) get some good feedback on this!


E6600 @ 3.2GHz (using Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme)
2GB Corsair DDR-800
Inno3D 8800 GTS 512 MB (G92)
Dell 2407WFP UltraSharp @ 1920*1200
Asus P5B-E Plus
150 GB Raptor HDD SATA
320 GB WD SATA (storage)
80 GB WD IDE (extra storage)
550W Coolermaster PSU
Windows XP Pro SP2

 

I vote for a fresh install of the OS

 

2 radical.I will suspect in falty graphic card.

 

Hey - just a follow-up on this.

I tested my 12v supply using OCCT and Speedfan. The voltage is mostly around 11.93v when idle. During stress tests the voltage sometimes drops to 11.88v but so far never below that.

As far as I can gage that should still be fine for an 8800 GTS.

SomaticM - perhaps you could try the same and let us know your results?

 

I did another 'ultimate stress test' by running Intel's TAT 100% on both cores and running ATITools' artifact scan at the same time for about 30 minutes.

There were no errors in ATITools but it made the voltage drop to as low as 11.77v. This is still only about a 2% drop but could this be a problem?