Geforce 6800 forces monitor into standby mode in 3DMark06 tests??

[John P]

New updated post:
I uninstalled old drivers and installed new drivers, played with BIOS settings. This is now on one of the old NForce 2 machines. The Geforce 6800 will enter Standby mode when doing something like 3DMARK06, it actually makes it through the test but everytime it enters a 3D test the monitor goes into standy mode, when it runs the CPU tests the monitor does not go into standby mode.

I'll try playing with the monitor drivers.

Any other ideas?







Original Post:
I upgraded my kids computers from NForce2 boards to the AsRock Dual-Sata2 and new processors so I could use their old Geforce 6880 AGP cards and RAM.

Computer #1 6800 card was misbehaving a bit before the upgrade so I wasn't too surprised when it kept failing (entering standy mode) intermittantly after the upgrade. I upgraded to a Geforce 7900GS PCI-E and it works great. Geforce 6800 #1 would not work in either of the old Nforce2 machines either. No biggie I thought, vid card just crapped out.

Computer #2 was humming along fine after the AsRock upgrade until recently, again entering standby mode for no reason. I attributed it to the finickiness of the AsRock so upgraded that machine to a Geforce 7900GS also.

Now the ah heck, Geforce 6800 #2 doesn't work in the old NForce 2 machines either!

What the heck? Is there some voltage setting or some weird deal on the AsRock I missed or something? It seems unlikely that 2 differenet AsRock Dual-Sata2 boards would munch 2 different Geforce 6800 cards but that's what seems to have happened.

Any thoughts or ideas to revive the 6800's? I tried replacing the heatsink/fan on 6800 #1 with an Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 thinking it was overheating, but it did nothing.

 

[cryptonomicon]

list the power supply mfgr and rated wattage please

 

[Lemon law]

I have an asrock board----but at least on my board---it won't take a AGP card---but has a PCI-express video slot for those who want better than the nvadia on board video.

 

[John P]

Computer 1 had a TTGI 550W and Computer 2 has a Apevia/Aspire 500W.

 

[cryptonomicon]

intermittent standby sounds like screwy motherboard to me, but when a system is already messed up and then you add more hardware, it adds so many variables that it just makes it that much harder to isolate the problematic component.

if you have a rig that works you can try to test out components individually then make some progress from there.

it would be unlikely that two cards were dead, i think it is a compatability problem, which you can research on your own with google or some sort of enthusiast forum, or try the motherboards forum here.

 

[John P]

it would be unlikely that two cards were dead, i think it is a compatability problem, which you can research on your own with google or some sort of enthusiast forum, or try the motherboards forum here.

I google with the best of 'em and I'v already done tons of research.

I have 5 computers running right now. 2 of them are the kids old machines that the Geforce 6800's used to be in. When I built the new rigs I just moved the old machines over and threw in some Geforce4 Ti4200's, that's it, nothing else changed - except the RAM, but that shouldn't matter. There is no reason the 6800's shouldn't work in the old rigs since they worked fine there for years. My rig is an old Pentium 4B 2.4Ghz with the only remaining Geforce 6800 that works. When I put the kids Geforce 6800's in my rig they do the standby thing.

Weird.

 

[WT]

Up until August, I was running an eVGA 6800 AGP (vanilla) in the same Asrock 939 board with an Enlight 420 PSU. Similar config, and the key to problem-free AGP on the Asrock board was always the order in which the drivers were loaded. The Asrock thread (at 30+ pages) has dropped in the nether regions, but that board was my best investment hands down on 2006.
You can try reloading DirectX also, as that was my only issues with the above setup.

 

[Navid]

So, you cannot get the 6800 card to work on any computer?

When you change the card on a machine, you may need to uninstall and install the drivers. So, uninstall the drivers before removing the old card. Then, shut down and install 6800. Power up and install the latest driver.

What exactly do you mean by the "standby thing"? What does it do exactly?

I did have a 6800 AGP on the Asrock motherboard and had no problem.

 

[John P]

So, you cannot get the 6800 card to work on any computer?

Nope. The computer won't show video when the computer boots up, the monitor stays if standby mode. Sometimes with one card it will boot up with video, then go into standby mode later and not come out of it. When I was messing with card #2 last night the computer booted up with no video, then showed a display for about a minute, then went back into standby mode.

I will mess with the mb BIOS and drivers later, but I shouldn't need to.

All the computers I use for testing work fine with Geforce 6800 #3 and a Geforce 4 Ti4200. All 3 Geforce 6800 cards are the same manufacturer/model.

 

[John P]

Bump for edit - see first post.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: John P.
The Geforce 6800 will enter Standby mode when doing something like 3DMARK06,

Install ATITool.
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/341

Set it up to store temperature into a log file.

In ATITool, run scan for artifacts.

If it runs without crashing for 30 minutes, check the log file for the highest temperature.
If it crashes, look at the log file after you recover. What is the highest temperature logged?

Your graphics card temperature is suspect.

When you say the monitor goes to standby mode, do you mean that the monitor LED changes color from green to yellow? Or, do you mean the screen goes blank. These are different. The second one may have nothing to do with the monitor. If you are talking about the second one, follow the instructions I gave you.

If it is really the monitor that goes into standby, it has nothing to do with the graphics card! Something is wrong with your monitor.

Edit:
Switched link to the specific version of atitool that I have had success with for a few months (0.25 beta 15). I have problems with the latest non-beta version (0.26)!

 

[Zap]

Is 3DMark running in modes that the monitor doesn't support? Either resolution or refresh rate?