8800GT Chaintech - Strange Problem.

[Priapus]

Howzit guys.

I have a friend who bought a 8800GT Chaintech card a month ago, he has put it into his Gigabyte S- Series 2 motherboard 945 chipset, I think?

So, he's now run into some problems, when he starts playing a game, about 5 minutes into the game the screen will go off and the sound (from game) will sound like a scratched CD.

We have tried new RAM, PSU and a different Gigabyte board. Same problemo. So, we took it back and the supplier said they tested the card with no problems. They seem to think it needs a PCI - E 2 buss for it to work, which I don't believe for one minute.

Anyone got any ideas as to what this could be?

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Priapus]

Anyone ?

 

[Indy500]

XP or Vista? Tried checking the temperature and trying different drivers? When I had this kind of problem it was an overheating card...

 

[Priapus]

I haven't checked temps. We've formatted and tried both Vista and Windows XP.

I did put my hand on the card and it was just warm. 9I know thats not how to properly mesure temps lol)

 

[Indy500]

Use rivatuner to check temperature after a game. It gives graph readouts over time.

 

[Priapus]

Doing that now.

Thank you.

Idle temp is 51c.

 

[Priapus]

Same problem guys. Can it be the whole PCI-E 2 buss thing?

 

[gurusan]

hmm, sounds odd for sure.

...as long as it's PCI-E 1.1 or above you should have no problems. Perhaps its just some sort of incompatibility with the board itself.

Have you tried updating the BIOS?

 

[Priapus]

Graphics Card Bios .... No MotherBoard ... Yes latest

 

[Devil_Spawn]

tried memtest/prime95?

 

[Priapus]

Hi,

The problem isn't with the PC. We've tried a few different pcs + hardware profiles. So the above programs will be of no use to us at all. They're for testing CPU/RAM/Overclocking stabilty setups.

I need to try determin if the card is faulty or it's because its being used on a PCI-E 1 board and not a PIC - E 2 board. (Which to me, shouldnt make a difference)

Appreciate the reply though.