SPARTACVS Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Help a n00b, please :oops: . My motherboard has intel integrated graphics, but for the last year or so, I've been using a GeForce 6600GT on the open PCI-Express port, and things have worked perfectly. Yesterday I was playing FEAR, and I left it on the pause screen and left the room for 5 minutes or so to get a drink, when I came back, the computer had shut down on it's own. I pressed the power button repeatedly to no avail, unplugged it and plugged it into a new socket in the wall to try again, and it still wouldn't start. At first I thought that FEAR had just fried my PSU, but upon experimenting I found that the computer would start up just fine if I took the video card out and ran it off integrated graphics, so my PSU is not completely fried I guess. But, as soon as I plug that nVidia card back in, the CPU fans start to spin and the logo on the front of the case glows for about a half a second, and then just stops. Does anyone have any experience in a problem like this? Any advice at all would be great. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neod101 Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 What wattage is your PSU? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForsetiAvatar Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 In addition to the PSU wattage, check the fan on the 6600GT. I have seen fans die and the card burns out. W/ something like FEAR running it would only take a couple of minutes to kill the card w/o a fan. Do you monitor system temps? It could also be a combination of the 2, your graphics card got too hot, causing it to draw more power than the PSU could handle and blew out a cap on the PSU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 werid check for burn marks on the card... :S icky...intel :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARTACVS Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 I think I may be pushing it on my PSU. It's maximum wattage is 300W, and according to the calculator at http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/, it says 280W+. It may be coming up on 300, because that site didn't have my GPU, I put it down as a vanilla 6800, but I really have a factory OC'd BFG 6600GT, which may suck up more power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Go and buy a 500W power supply until you can get a better one. 300/280w really isn't enough for anything more than a basic stock config. Not sure if it will fix your geforce (check your warrenty if its fubar'd, then RTR (return to retailer) that thing). But it should make your PC a lot happyier in the long run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARTACVS Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 Go and buy a 500W power supply until you can get a better one. 300/280w really isn't enough for anything more than a basic stock config. Not sure if it will fix your geforce (check your warrenty if its fubar'd, then RTR (return to retailer) that thing). But it should make your PC a lot happyier in the long run. I'm thinking that's just what I may have to do. I'll just go buy a higher wattage power supply tommorrow. I'm really happy that when I took the fan off my nVidia chip, nothing was melted or anything... so I'm good when it comes to having a non-screwed card. Thank you to everyone who helped me out, now my comp will be in good working order in time for Half Life 2: Episode 1! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Toxie Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Have you (or do you have the chance) put the card in another system to see if it still works? I didn't see that in the thread but I was really only skimming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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