Diagnose Graphics card problem.

[cedjunior]

intel Pentium 4 640
ASUS P5RD1-V
CORSAIR PC3200 512x2
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200M0 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E
DVD-RW drive
DVD drive
XP Home Ed. SP2

Ok here is my problem. When playing a graphics intense game, or trying to run 3DMark05, sometimes the screen locks up, and then goes to blue screen with an error message saying that the display driver went into an infinite loop, when I restard Microsoft online Crash Analysis says that the Nvidia driver is what cause the crash. I've tried every driver available, I've tried a clean install of Windows. I tried using driver cleaner since I was bouncing from one driver to another, and the problem was not solved it did make it crash less often.

MSI Tech Support seems to think the problem is either the card is a dud or its a power supply issue
Power supply is an Atrix(came with the case) rated at 480w (+3.3V@30A, +5V@45A, +12V@15A, -5V@1A, -12V@1A, +5VSB@2.5A). One thing I've noticed is, the higher I overclock the CPU(and the better it performs in PCMark2005) the lower my graphics card performs (lower 3Dmark05 score). Could this be another indicator of a power issue? (cpu draining power away from the graphics card?) Thanks.

 

[m3trj]

It must be the fact that you have an overclock. You should turn all overclocks down to stock speeds and try again.

Also your 12V rail does not have enough ampage for your system. You should be looking at about 20A at least.

 

[cedjunior]

Its not over clocked at the moment, I only had it oc'd a few times while I was running benchmarks to see what I could do. The error occurs no matter what. I'm guessing that I need a beefier power supply though. Ohh and I meant to post this in the "Hardware Troubleshooting" board, but I was reading this one and wasnt paying attention to where I was posting, any chance a mod can move it??? Thanks.

 

[damasta55r]

Than gfx card is overheating

 

[PZEROFGH]

i would recommend to you getting another psu while adding a new fan for the graphics card. psu that come with cases are generally bad quality

 

[m3trj]

Yes like I said with that setup it's obviously the PSU that's almost definitely causing the problem, with only 15A. I doubt it's overheating or it would be artifacting instead. I'm positive a good PSU will fix this.

 

[cedjunior]

Ok I went ahead and got a new power supply, a 500watt Ultra X Connect, got it for $79 plus a $40 mail in rebate. Its got all that LED crap on it which I'm not a fan of, but it the price was right so I went with it.

http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=37&pPath=157&productID=161

 

[macdawg]

did the new PSU fix it???

I'm having the same problem.

My vid card fan is working, and my power supply is a $35 420 watt aspire.

However lots of people say it's bad memory but memtest runs fine for me.

GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I played CSS for hours no probs, I play need for speed demo & it crashed to this screen.

 

[macdawg]

My PSU is 18A on the 12v BTW