Problem with XFX 6800

[fenxy]

Hi guys i recently purchased a XFX 6800 128MB RAM 256-Bit off ebay and i recieved the item and once i had fitted it i formatted my pc so that it would run correctly with no problems what so ever, but when i walked away from my pc for 5 mins when i had formatted and had all the correct drivers installed the screen became blotchy with little squares with purple in the squares and also when i moved the mouse it had a large square around just like it bugged also when i went to advanved options on the graphics card the GPU was reading 153 degrees 'C', also when i was playing a game the problem accured again and when i tryed closing my game my monitor then had a black screen and my pc was still running and it did this quite frequently.

Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

[ifyouknowme]

do u have the extra power lead plugged into it

try the drivers from the xfx site there the only ones that work my 6800gt 256 mb xfx

[fenxy]

yes i plugged in the extra power supply slot

[ifyouknowme]

gdgd is ur mobo sli ?

[fenxy]

Hi PD HEXUS i am using the device drivers from nvidia.com and the driver version is 77.77

[ifyouknowme]

i use 77.72
77.77 didnt work on my 6800gt
is ur mobo sli

[fenxy]

mines just a standard 6800 so i dont think its mobo sli

[Jonny]

I had exactly the same symptoms with my 9800 pro. It was overheating, so I cleared the dust from the fan+heatsink and now it's fine.

[fenxy]

Jonny i dont even have a heatsink and there was no dust on it when i got the graphics card its just a fan

[ifyouknowme]

is the motherboard sli

it would have a heatsink its under the fan

[fenxy]

im not sure on my motherboard being sli but it is a MSI K7 Delta

[ifyouknowme]

its not its agp rather than pci-e
is the agp frequency set right in bios along with the agp voltage

[fenxy]

what should the agp frequency and agp voltage be set to for a standard 6800?

[ifyouknowme]

not sure but it would be the standard settings for an agp slot

[fenxy]

well if it was the standard settings then it would be alright but it still crashes

any more ideas anyone? cos im all out of them

[ifyouknowme]

use the drivers from the xfx site

does the hestink/fan get really hot

try under clocking the graphics card using the coolbits reg thing