New FX5600 Ultra crashing to desktop or rebooting comp =[

[Hopper]

I need help, but first the specs:

2500 Barton w/ Vantec Aeroflow cooler
Epox 8RDA w/ latest BIOS and Nforce drivers
XP Pro/SP1 DirectX9
(NEW) Leadtek Winfast A310 Ultra TD FX5600 128mb vid card
2 40gig Seagate 7200rpm ata100 HDs (Defragged 2 days ago)
512mb Kingston DDR2700 (Dual Channel enabled)
Turtle Beach sound card
Cyberdrive 36x/12x/48x cdrw
400w Allied power supply
KDS VS-70 17" CRT monitor 800x600 32bit @ 75hertz
NIC 10/100mbps Ethernet
ALL DRIVERS UP TO DATE
Temps: CPU- 39C System- 30C
Voltages:
Vcore: 1.68v +5V: 4.999 5VSB: 4.921
Vdd: 1.584 +12V: 12.81
Vdimm: 2.496 -12V: -12.034
-5V: -5.154 Vbat: 3.168

I just installed my vid card, drivers(43.51 from the install CD), and Leadtek's WinFox utility. I reboot, run 3dmark2001 to get a benchmark before I overclock (my card), and it boots me to the desktop. I figured maybe it was because the system was ramped up a little, so I put the settings back to stock speeds in the BIOS and try 3DMark again... with another boot to the desktop. I go to play Counterstrike, and it looks messed up like its all choppy, tearing, not filled in all the way etc..., and then my comp reboots. I reinstalled the drivers with the same results. I tried the Nvidia's Detonator 44.03 drivers and I STILL get booting to the desktop, reboots, etc... Now I'm getting frustrated. My card is securely in the agp slot, all the power plugs a firmly in place...I just don't know what is causing this problem!! You guys have any suggestions before I RMA back to Newegg for another one?

One thing I forgot to mention... WinFox reports the card GPU temp to be 70C. Is that high for non-overclocked?

[Hopper]

[Mykex]

That might be warm?

I cant say for sure cause I dont beleave my temp gauge?

Because my MSI FX5900 is reading 3c above ambiant at idle and maxs around 44c????

Anyways, I had a reboot problem right after I upgraded, if I turned the case light on - reboot, touch the scroll mouse - reboot. I took out the brandy new 400watt aluminum case 4 fan uber KingWin power supply I just put in and rammed the old Antec 330watt back in.

It's been fine ever since?

I can cook popcorn on the back fan of the PSU but it's running fine.

[Omardeth]

try setting the bios to 4x agp instead of 8 . it solved someone elses problem maybe it will work for you also .

[Mykex]

OK after about an hour of ghost recon I caught the GPU showing 54c, it drops from there in like 2 second 4c incriments.

wee

[Hopper]

Well Omardeth, the only bios setting for 8x was "enable/disable 8x support", and I disabled it. That seemed to work.

As for overclocking, this card sucks. I can't even bump it 25mhz on the GPU or memory!! Would a voltage bump on the AGP slot make any difference? I'm still thinking of RMAing this thing back to NewEgg.

[Auswak]

Download 44.71 drivers from www.guru3d.com

[pdpw]

Originally posted by Hopper
Well Omardeth, the only bios setting for 8x was "enable/disable 8x support", and I disabled it. That seemed to work.

As for overclocking, this card sucks. I can't even bump it 25mhz on the GPU or memory!! Would a voltage bump on the AGP slot make any difference? I'm still thinking of RMAing this thing back to NewEgg.

Make sure you have agp apature set to 256, dl the det 45.20's from www.guru3d.com and what psu have you got ?

[Auswak]

I recommend that AGP Apperture is set to 64-128mb only.

256mb is possible, but you may find you will lose some performance at that size. Try it and test it if you like, but no more than 128mb is needed.

[pdpw]

Tested 20 sets of det drivers a few mth back and some det drivers will only work at 128meg agp and some will only work at 256meg agp. But you will know is agp size is wrong because you will get a lot of gfx corruption in games.

Agp size should be set to atleast half of your system ram.