Nvidia GeForce 6600 driver problem?

danmanchester

Built my new pc over the last week and am having problems with the graphics card . I don't know if it's a hardware or software fault...or a "danmanchester" fault!!! I don't want to take it back to the shop for testing yet (MicroDirect in Manchester) until I'm sure the card is faulty by eliminating all other possible causes.

It's a Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 6600 PCIE (GV-NX66256DP2)

Basically the problem is - pc can run fine for hours then suddenly without warning it just "blue screens" and reboots!

When it boots up again I get the message "your system has recovered from a serious error etc....." and a link to the online crash error report:



I've tried both solutions - decreasing the acceleratr to none didn't do anything - the problem still happens, and as for updating driver - well that's a whole other problem again!

I've checked in device manager - and the driver for the card is 7.7.72 and it's dated :15.06.2005
There does appear to be a newer version of the driver (March this year) online (on both the Nvidia website and the Gigabyte website) - but no matter how many times I download and try to apply it I keep getting "corrupt file" error messages so it won't extract/unpack. I've tried downloading the drivers from different areas ie: asia,america europe and china and EVERY one gives me the same error :mad: !

I don't know what to do now, I've tried to locate other websites that carry drivers but they are paid for sites :rolleyes: .

Any suggestions appreciated.

PS: My set up is:
Antec P180 case
Antec Neo 500 psu
2GB DDR Ram (4x512 sticks)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ cpu
Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 6600 256mb DDRII
Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard
XP Home
300 GB Maxtor IDE HD

fguk

Weird I know, but maybe an older video driver would be a better choice, one perhaps without the bug you are experiencing?

danmanchester

Thanks fguk - such a simple suggestion but one I hadn't thought of! I was always trying download the latest (driver version 84.21) or even beta 9 versions of drivers for my card.

Anyway managed to find the driver archive in Nividia support - picked one at random (driver version 81.98 ) and it installed ok - so fingers crossed that will be the stable one for me!

Much appreciated :money: !

niceguyrichy

Use DriverCleaner, follow the read-me instructions.
Download the latest drivers for your card, it's new enough that it shouldn't need older drivers.
Driver cleaner genuinely can make the difference between a perfectly working system and nothing happening at all Honest.

danmanchester

danmanchester wrote:

.... so fingers crossed that will be the stable one for me!

Spoke too soon! Just crashed again same thing grrrrr :mad: !

I'll have a look at that Drivercleaner thing, thanks.

Freebyman

I had the same problem with my 6600GT card from Nvidia, I just went onto the website

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

then choose graphics cards,geforce and tnt2, download version 84.21

it should work and no more blue screens!

danmanchester

Thanks very much for your suggestions everyone - especially the pointer to DriverCleaner - that seems to have done the trick! (Fingers crossed & touch wood! :T

Finally managed to update driver to 84.21 after using the cab cleaner and driver cleaner in safe mode.

I've been pulling my hair out and scratching my head for almost a week on this one I should have asked on this forum first!

niceguyrichy

danmanchester wrote:

Thanks very much for your suggestions everyone - especially the pointer to DriverCleaner - that seems to have done the trick! (Fingers crossed & touch wood! :T

Finally managed to update driver to 84.21 after using the cab cleaner and driver cleaner in safe mode.

I've been pulling my hair out and scratching my head for almost a week on this one I should have asked on this forum first!

NP mate

drivercleaner has been a life saver for me in the past.
fantastic app considering base version is free and platinum only costs 5 Euro's.