GeForce 6800 Ultra freezing!! *resolved*

[fletch2099]

Is there someone that is following this post since the beguining and who is abe to list all the solutions that worked?

I can try but if someone ca complete it thats would be great:

-Deactivate hyper threading
-Deactivate fastwrite in bios
-update videocard bios (risky thing)

did I missed something?

 

[frickea86]

ok, just a question, what is fastwrite? and how do u turn it off in a abit IS7 motherboard.

BTW, the flashing solved every problem but one, the computer will not turn off, it'll shut down, but when the os sends the signal to the motherboard it doesn't shot off. i take video card out and shut it down with a diff video card in it shuts down. Any suggestions?

 

[RampantAndroid]

Last time I will say this....read the fricken thread...I've explained this before!

Fastwrites allow the processor to wrtie DIRECTLY to the videocard's memory, whereras w/o it, it writes to system memory, THEN videocard's mem.

I don't have an ABit board so I canot help. The manual might be able to though...

 

[imported_pedrov]

That's Correct, my 6800 (360/760) can handle 16x ansi in all games pretty easy, i play 1024x760 4x antialiasing and 16x ansi by default and it just freezes in d3d games, but now with ansi 8x my freezes are almost gone, that's why i think it's a driver problem, i mean the difference between 16 and 8x ansi is minimal in fps impact, like 5 fps maximum (fraps).

 

[imported_Pancho]

i had the same problem, and i actually read all that neat info. thanks for all the hard work guys.

i found a really easy fix though. i installed the 61.77 drivers and the probelms went away.

not saying that all that complicated stuff isnt the correct fix, nor that the 61.77s are the answer for everyone.

i installed them, and they worked. give it a try.

edit....

i actually had a bit of flicker with the 61.77s, so i checked out my nforce mobo drivers and they were old.

i installed the nforce 5.10s and then the newer 66.93 video drivers and everything is perfect.

good luck!

 

[imported_Chelsea]

Hi,
I've been experiencing Nvidia lockup, freeze, BSOD, etc. I'm not an extreme techy type, but have managed to turn off fast writes in the BIOS.
You seem to have solved the problem but I need some very basic, step by step instructions on how to accomplish this. Please help.
System
A8V MB
Nvidia 6800 Ultra Deluxe
Raided Maxtors (150 Gigs total)
2 sticks of Corsair "Pro" 1G memory
Antec 550 w power
AMD FX-53 64 CPU

Although this is a PC, I'm using an Apple cinema monitor. In Device Mgr. the "Human Interface" comes up with an error "12" reading. According to Microsoft the message is telling me that the power supply to the monitor is insufficient.???
Thank you for any help you can provide.

 

[martywrx]

ok.

I have been experiencing the same problems for some time now. Most games will start locking up for about 10 seconds then start going again.

I monitored my gpu temps with various games. I found that doom 3 never locked up and the gpu temp hovered around 80 degrees. I tried farcry and the temps would sky rocket to 96 in a very short time. I had exactly the same behaviour with half life 2.

I found that doom3 had vsync enabled while farcry and hl2 didn't. So I enabled vsync for the two later games and it fixed my lockups. The gpu temp does what it did with doom3 with these games.

I'm not sure if someone has already suggested this but it fixed my problems with lockups.And it may only apply to my problems with my card.

But if it helps anyone else that could be a plus.

Also, I don't know why its fixed the lockups but if any tech minded person could reply and let me know why this has worked. I'm assuming it has something to do with the 6800u being able to render as fast as it can making it overheat. Limiting it to a lower framerate keeps the temps down.

Cheers.

Marty.

 

[uOpt]

Originally posted by: martywrx

I monitored my gpu temps with various games. I found that doom 3 never locked up and the gpu temp hovered around 80 degrees. I tried farcry and the temps would sky rocket to 96 in a very short time. I had exactly the same behaviour with half life 2.

I found that doom3 had vsync enabled while farcry and hl2 didn't. So I enabled vsync for the two later games and it fixed my lockups. The gpu temp does what it did with doom3 with these games.

You have a simple overheating problem.

The temperature with vsync is lower because the card now sits idle for a good chunk of the play time, waiting for the vsync.

 

[imported_Chelsea]

 

[imported_Chelsea]

What are the normal operating temps? What settings seem to work best in expert tool re the fan speed and clocking?

 

[kris1]

One more added to the growing crowds of 6800 frustration. Dont get me wrong...i love my card...

Here's what I am facing...Geforce6800GT- used to have a rock solid OC(no artefacts, etc.) at 415/1120. But after i installed the Forceware 67.66 drivers, i started getting the famous infinite_loop and freezing issues.

Now obviously...(in my case atleast) this seems to be a driver problem (since the same oc worked fine w/ previous versions of the FW drivers), but i thought i'd let the world know that there are more of us...(The legions of inf_loop victims over the ages)

PS: I hope rolling back to the WHQL cert. drivers fixes the issue...or i will be back

 

[martywrx]

To me the card shouldn't be overheating.

I'm not overclocking it.

I have good quality components and a very well ventilated and cooled case but this sucker just gets so damn hot.

I've searched the net for another cooling solution but all there is out at the moment is the nv silencer 5 and all that really does is give you a quieter hsf.

From what I can tell having vsync enabled really stuff's the framerates.

So damn frustrated with this card!!!

 

[uOpt]

If you are sure your case is not overheated (test by running open), then the most likely cause is that your existing heatsink and fan on the card is incorrectly seated.

Dismounting, reapplying thermal paste and carefully remounting might very well fix it.

Martin

 

[uOpt]

Wait, you say you have the Asus Ultra.

Is that the one-slot design?

If so, do you have something in the PCI slot next to it? That might eat up on the fan input.

Also, is the fan running at all?

 

[martywrx]

It's the one slot design.

I have 2 slots free so it has plenty of room to breath.

I've just tested the card with a huge fan blowing on it and that keeps the temps down a bit and stops it from crashing.

But I will do what martin said and re-seat the heatsink with some new thermal paste.

Cheers.

 

[martywrx]

Ready for a laugh?

When I removed the fan on the card I couldn't believe what I saw.

There was so much dust clogged up on the heat sink that it must have been blocking the airflow. I mean it was thick!

Temps now...

idle 50
load 73

better than

idle 60
load 96

wouldn't agree

moral of the story, clean the inside of your case once in a while

 

[RampantAndroid]

Lesson to be learned:

keep a filter on those intake fans! Clean it often, do a case cleaning every 6 months if need be......thermal grease on my 6800U was all dried up when I got to it....temps didnt drop much with new artic silver on it, but the temps drop faster if you know what I mean.

 

[kris1]

Dont' know if anyone has noticed this... (didn't see anything about this yet, and i have been through most of these posts.)

If i go to the "Debug Settings" menu in the nvdia driver settings, i see an entry:

Timestamp: 23:50:01 2/5/2005
Event ID: 106
Event: Silent Running: Stress test transistion L2 -> L1

The time seems to correspond to the slowdown/freeze event.... anyone have any ideas about this?

Kris

 

[drquazar]

Glad I finnaly got onto these forums. I had read the entire thread over several days while I awaited my delivery of a new PNY Ultra 6800. With $500 on the line, the forum was really scaring me. Most of the systems I read about were newer and faster then mine, and I expected to at least experiance some problems. I even ordered a new Ultra 500watt PSU, just in case. Because I was pretty certain the old Turbolink 350 PSU would not work with the new Ultra 6800. I upgraded from a PNY Ti4400 video card, and I was running the current 66.93 Nvidia drivers already. So I had some faith in PNY from the get go.

When the Ultra 6800 arrived I was intimidated be its sheer size and weight. This puppy is big. I had nothing in the 1st PCI slot so that was not an issue. Had my Hard Drive been one slot up, it would have had to move but luckily it wasn't. So far so good.

I had absolutely NO power dongles available, but I was willing to unplug my old Plextor 24/10/40A, since I now use an External DVD burner. This gives me one power dongle to use. According to the PNY Ultra Manual, "350watt Power supply minimum" and You can use the split Y, but 2 separate dongles is better". Well I figure lets just use the Y cable and hope for the best. I am real skeptical of this thing even running given the horror stories that I have read.

After 20 minutes to wrestle the Ultra into the AGP slot, its finally in. The moment has come! I switch on the PC and it screams incredibly loud in high pitch. No bios no boot up, just 50 decibals of noise. I unplug it and wonder what happen. Well Duh...I had not connected the Y Cable to any power at all...LOL So for future reference, if you boot up an Ultra 6800 with NO POWER, it will go off like a siren...

The power is to the card, 2 /21in CRT's are plugged to the Ultra, it boots up! Success! The fan is tad louder then my older Ti4400, but not bad. XP Pro sp2 , recognized and configured it...all looks good. I reset my desktop resolution and notice, I got a lot more choices now. And with a dual monitor setup, the combos are endless. But its the games I wanna see. All these freeze ups and blue screens seem to hit during intense usage. So I load up FarCry, H2, Bf 1942, BF Vietnam, Painkiller, Doom3, and 3dmarks 03 for some testing.

Every Game reset its video to match my new card. Maxed out and all the filtering. I cranked Farcry and Halflife2 up to 1600x1200 and they played incredibly. No troubles no lock ups. BattleField's and Doom3 were stunning in hi res full options. I was impressed.. I ran 3DMark 03. The old Ti4400 would barely chug through it. A score near 2000 was on a good day. I ran it with the ULtra 6800 and could not believe the framerates! Final score a whopping 11560. I am not an overclocker, and I have seen them hit 12000 and 13000, but hey...look at my system...A good 3 years old.

Well its been 5 days and I am in gaming heaven. I was a little disapointed that SWG was not a tad smoother at top video settings, but that is more likely game related then Ultra related. All in all, was very smooth and painless, and the power supply issue seems a bit overrated. I do notice the forum seems to have tapered off, so I am guessing the Ultra just had a rocky start like most new product lines. All seems well now, and I highly reccomend the Ultra 6800 to any gamers that wanna see some very impressive graphics from todays new games.

Drquazar
ICQ 551128
drq@drquazar.com

Pentium 4 2.53 FSB 400/533
Asus P4PE Mobo only AGP X4
2 x512 Kingston DDR 333mhz PC2700
PNY ULTRA 6800 Verto 256mb
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
5.1 Cambridge Speakers
TurboLink 350watt Power Supply
4 Bay Standard ATX Case
AOpen DVD 1640 Pro drive
Toshiba CD/DVDW External 16X Double Layer
Logitech MX Cordless Keyboard Mouse combo

 

[eskimo103]

From my experience, these cards only have problems with newer systems, in particular AMD64 bit CPU's and NForce 3 mobos.

I suspect that if I went out and bought a new mobo, then everything might be peachy. But I spent so long getting this card to work in this rig that I am loathe to take it out.....

 

[Silmar86]

I am running the following

AMD Athlon 64 FX-53
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI
WD Raptor 74Gb 10,000RPM SATA HDD x 2 in RAID-0
eVga GeForce 6800Ultra 256MB PCI-x16 video card with 2x DVI, S-video Out, SLI
PC-3200 2048MB GeIL 184-pin DDR SDRAM w/blue heatspreader, CAS 3, 2x 1024mb sticks
Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000 Black See Thru Side (400W PSU)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Pioneer DVR-109 DVD Re-Writer (16x/6x Dual Layer Black)
Thermaltake Purepower 480W PSU (w/PFC)

And I am afraid to say I get the same, be they OpenGL games (IL2/PF) or HL2,

I am unsure what to do, whether following these instructions, which are obviously for AGP where I have PCIe

At $4500AUD I really have purchased a dead duck!!!! EXTREMELY ANNOYED.

 

[uOpt]

martywrx, it would be nice to edit your original post with the solution so that people can find it easier.

 

[dfinder]

bump

 

[Andreas7577]

I've got an Asus V9999GT 128Mb and I have been having the usual problems u've talked about.
I trid eveything but the coolbits "thing" with the 2D/3D.
The frequency I found by default are for both of them 350/700.
How shall I change them?
(obviously any consequences are my responsability)

 

[jdsemler]

I have a BFG 6800 Ultra OC (425/1100), and nothing worked until I put the two power inputs on different lines. They shared the same line originally, and even though the card was the only thing on that line, it is all that worked. I'm using a Neo2 Platinum motherboard, dual channel RAM, and a Thermaltake Xaser 480w power supply. The crashing has stopped. This is with fast writes on Auto in the BIOS too.