msi nvideo 7600gt crashes

S

shanemeg

Spaceman
hi could anyone help i have recently purchased msi 7600gt 512mb card and have returned 1 back and this is the second card and i have the same problems.

games crashes and system restarts also experience graphics darker, and menu items faded. I have tried everything i know including contacting msi with no reply to date. Please help me as i am ready to smash the card in a million little pieces. :confused:

my system specs

amd athlon 3800+ dual core 201hz

1 gig ddr ram

nforce 3 ga-k8ns motherboard

syncmaster 191t monitor

550 watt omni power supply brand new



can anybody help me in what possibly could be wrong ive also connected the molex cable to the graphics card. :confused:
 
It's only the menus that are darker? Or is it all graphics? Is there some kind of graphical setting that is turned on that might be causing this? Are you using winXP or Vista?
 
What did you use prior to the 7600gt? Did you uninstall the driver for that card before inserting and installing the new one.
The brightness doesn't surprise me or worry me. There are quite some global settings for Geforce cards to change the gamma values for all apps, so that is probably how to fix that one.
The rest COULD be a problem with forced Anti Aliacing and/or Anisitropic Filtering, but its hard to say without seeing it.
 
Maybe your system is overheating when the graphics card is really active. Try running with the computer case open.
 
thanks guys,


i send the card back to the dealer as all the graphics in every game was jumbled in some way.


god i have been sending cards back to this dealer via post to many times now

I'm so sick of msi 7600 cards

im getting him to resend me the last card i sent him as that was just restarting my machine every ten minutes but i believe that was the psu, Ive changed the psu since then. So hopefully that will solve the problem fingers crossed.

by now i could have upgraded my whole system with postage fees ~~~.
something ive learned NEVER PURCHASE HARDWARE FROM EBAY.
 
I've never had major problems with ebay purchases. In fact I've saved a lot of money by buying processor pulls off ebay for around half the price of what a brand new one would have cost.

Just remember there is some risk involved with purchasing used hardware, whether it's from ebay or if you go to the local dealership and buy a used car.

Now if the card was new, then it's certainly not ebay's fault. If you would have bought from an online retailer you would have had to cover return shipping anyway.

Anyway, jumbled graphics is usually a vram problem, whether the ram's corrupted itself or if overheating is causing data corruption. If you can, you should monitor your system ambient temperature. Anything above about 37 degrees Celsius is usually pretty bad and is a sign you should consider upgrade your cooling system.

As far as system restarts, it is possible that if you have a very low wattage PSU (like 400W or less) then a video card might begin overloading the PSU and cause a power dip which would restart the machine. However 550W should be sufficient for what you have and a midlevel nvidia card (which the 7600 is), unless the PSU is just faulty.

Anyway one thing I've always learned is that complex problems tend to have simple solutions whereas simple problems tend to have complex solutions. Instead of sending cards back everytime they don't work, try seeing if there is a problem with your system itself. Monitor the cooling, use memtest86+ to test the memory. Maybe you'll find a way to get your computer running well without spending so much more money.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top