alrighty after much research and feedback from point of view support themselves
I (and a bunch of other people on various forums) found out that the problem is the cards bios's!!
the problem bios for 6800GT/6800U (well UEE too but they not official as such yet) is 05.40.02.10.14
to find which you have enter display properties -> advanced -> first tab showing "Geforce 6800 Ultra"
then to your right you'll get the GPU type (processor) IRQ the card uses and the bios version!
if you have the 05.40.02.10.14 bios you need to either..
A: flash your card with a newer build
B: RMA/return your card and ask that the store do it
C: dont do anything if you're not having problems, but you might at some point so see A or B
before you go on to flash your bios, remember that unless you got the go ahead from say support group for your card (ie POV, MSI, ASUS, etc)
if you dont... there's a chance you'll void the warranty (see option B)
ALSO THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE OF A BAD FLASH
more about this at the bottom
on to the bios flashing
one place with tons of bios files = http://www.mvktech.net/download.php
browse it and find a bios with a newer version than your current
i chose the evga for my card ftp://evga.com/N345.exe
ofcourse its not the POV but the one they sent me was the one i already had lol
this file makes a bootable floppy disk that you run and just need to say yes to flash ("y")
uses nvflash 5.03 that kinda sux
the best flash tool according to most of the various forums i've visited in the search for a solution
seems to be NVflash 4.42 http://www.mvktech.net/download.php?view.41
so what i did was make the floppy with the evga bootmaker.
then i deleted the evga NVflash.exe and Cwsdpmi.exe
i then copied the 4.42 exe files over instead
this way tho the boot is completely automatic and you do NOT get a choice to flash or not
after that i edited the autoexec.bat in notepad and put
"nvflash -f n345.rom -2 -p -u" (without the " ") instead of what was there (diff commands for all versions of nvflash lol)
if you DL a different bios but also DL the bootloader from evga
all you need to do is either
A: change new bios filename to n345.rom
or
B: edit autoexec.bat and replace with your new filename (max 8 characters)
remember this way you do NOT get a chance to type yes!
then you just have to reboot set floppy as first boot and let it run
the num/caps/scroll lock lights will flash in order
once screen says its finished, press ctrl+alt+delete NOT! NOT! NOT! the reset button (dunno but i was told NOT too so DONT)
now if by any odd chance you should fail to flash your card (power hickup,lightning hits your case, cola tipped over and fell into it, cat pee'd on it etc)
or the bios you picked didnt work with your card
what you need to do is replace the bios file (if it flashed correctly but doesnt work)
then same procedure and thats where this way is better as you dont need to know when to press a key it will run and complete
tho takes 30 secs to a minute so a 5 min wait should be enough
a PCI card is ofcourse handy to have that way you can see what you're doing
ofcourse can't take the credit for this as a LOT of people came up with this together
simply relaying the usefull info
thats about it
have a nice day
p.s this works with both FastWrites and dual channel enabled and different clock speeds
tho keeping 2d/3d the same is still a good idea as heat spikes are easier on the GPU that way
I (and a bunch of other people on various forums) found out that the problem is the cards bios's!!
the problem bios for 6800GT/6800U (well UEE too but they not official as such yet) is 05.40.02.10.14
to find which you have enter display properties -> advanced -> first tab showing "Geforce 6800 Ultra"
then to your right you'll get the GPU type (processor) IRQ the card uses and the bios version!
if you have the 05.40.02.10.14 bios you need to either..
A: flash your card with a newer build
B: RMA/return your card and ask that the store do it
C: dont do anything if you're not having problems, but you might at some point so see A or B
before you go on to flash your bios, remember that unless you got the go ahead from say support group for your card (ie POV, MSI, ASUS, etc)
if you dont... there's a chance you'll void the warranty (see option B)
ALSO THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE OF A BAD FLASH
more about this at the bottom
on to the bios flashing
one place with tons of bios files = http://www.mvktech.net/download.php
browse it and find a bios with a newer version than your current
i chose the evga for my card ftp://evga.com/N345.exe
ofcourse its not the POV but the one they sent me was the one i already had lol
this file makes a bootable floppy disk that you run and just need to say yes to flash ("y")
uses nvflash 5.03 that kinda sux
the best flash tool according to most of the various forums i've visited in the search for a solution
seems to be NVflash 4.42 http://www.mvktech.net/download.php?view.41
so what i did was make the floppy with the evga bootmaker.
then i deleted the evga NVflash.exe and Cwsdpmi.exe
i then copied the 4.42 exe files over instead
this way tho the boot is completely automatic and you do NOT get a choice to flash or not
after that i edited the autoexec.bat in notepad and put
"nvflash -f n345.rom -2 -p -u" (without the " ") instead of what was there (diff commands for all versions of nvflash lol)
if you DL a different bios but also DL the bootloader from evga
all you need to do is either
A: change new bios filename to n345.rom
or
B: edit autoexec.bat and replace with your new filename (max 8 characters)
remember this way you do NOT get a chance to type yes!
then you just have to reboot set floppy as first boot and let it run
the num/caps/scroll lock lights will flash in order
once screen says its finished, press ctrl+alt+delete NOT! NOT! NOT! the reset button (dunno but i was told NOT too so DONT)
now if by any odd chance you should fail to flash your card (power hickup,lightning hits your case, cola tipped over and fell into it, cat pee'd on it etc)
or the bios you picked didnt work with your card
what you need to do is replace the bios file (if it flashed correctly but doesnt work)
then same procedure and thats where this way is better as you dont need to know when to press a key it will run and complete
tho takes 30 secs to a minute so a 5 min wait should be enough
a PCI card is ofcourse handy to have that way you can see what you're doing
ofcourse can't take the credit for this as a LOT of people came up with this together
simply relaying the usefull info
thats about it
have a nice day
p.s this works with both FastWrites and dual channel enabled and different clock speeds
tho keeping 2d/3d the same is still a good idea as heat spikes are easier on the GPU that way