PNY 7600 gs lockup/vid issues

[kbanny]

I bought a PNY 7600 gs 512mb ddr2 agp for 129.99 at compusa using a 50.00 giftcard I had.

Anyways I was upgrading from a 9700 pro since this is going to be a back up system come december and wanted to check out a few newer games and get something to tinker with.

Here is my dilema. I installed it correctly w/ drivercleaner etc. Using the drivers that it came with since my internet is only through my cell phone. (I have to hook up my cell phone as modem) anyways It worked for games except it had artifacts w/o overclocking and heat issues, then I tried to play a dvd and some old videos I had with various formats on various players. Did a bit of research and found out I had to upgrade my chipset drivers (nforce 3 150's). That fixed the video playback but now I get lock ups in all games d3d and opengl ranging from quake 2/3/4 to ut and ut2k4 cod 1/2. I've tried probally 3 different forceware drivers in the 9 series.

I have write combining off,fast write disabled, agp forced to 4x8x (only bios option).

My system is a aopen ak89 max amd 64 3200+ 1mb cache 1gig corsair xms pc-3200 antec truepower 550w.Everything is currently updated now including bios.

I did a bit of research and seen similar problems but no solutions, I'm hoping somebody has a solution as I do not want to return the card.I know I could have gotten better deals elsewhere such as newegg. But that's avoiding troubleshooting

 

[Deadman93723]

Sounds like you have already tried everything, looks like the card is a dud.

 

[kbanny]

I figured it out I think. I haven't had any issues and I'm oc'd now. I forced the agp to 4x not 4x8x and then upped the volts to 1.6. It seems to work now and temps @stock are 45c idle 62c load oc'd to 475/325 up from 400/270 temps are now 48c idle 64c load

I remember somebody saying they were having power issues with a antec trueblue 480w. So my last resort was voltage. I will check later to see if it was just the 4x agp that fixed it.