Strange problem with 6600 gt

shark3189 · 01-15-2006, 06:53 PM

I recently bought an eVGA GeForce 6600 GT video card, and it seems to work fine for most things. I played Brothers in Arms: Earned In Blood and it ran pretty smoothly. I also had no problem watching videos off of the internet (streaming them). However, I ran into a problem watching videos through my media players. I tried 3 different files, all different types and sizes. I also tried windows media player, divx, and real player. but everytime i tried to play it, that program would just lock up. If it was a small file, i could close it thorugh task manager, but if it was a larger file i would have to restart my computer. what could the problem be?

dai · 01-16-2006, 01:13 PM

check to see if you are missing codecs
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

shark3189 · 01-16-2006, 02:22 PM

I ran that program and it said I had 2 codecs that would work with .AVI files. They were both XviD. Just incase, I tried downloading the newest version of Divx codecs and then tried playing the video, and it still didn't work.

shark3189 · 01-17-2006, 07:20 PM

Ok, I finally figured out my problem. For any other people who have a problem running an AGP GeForce 6600 GT 128 mb video card, try doing the following:

1. Right-click on your desktop and go to Properties->Settings->Advanced->Your graphics card (mine said GeForce 6600 GT).
2. Check where it says Bus, and make sure it says AGP. Before, mine said PCI for some reason.

3. If it does say PCI, go to your motherboard site and download drivers that support AGP (I downloaded Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Ulility)

01-15-2006, 06:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
shark3189 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 85 OS: Windows XP	Strange problem with 6600 gt I recently bought an eVGA GeForce 6600 GT video card, and it seems to work fine for most things. I played Brothers in Arms: Earned In Blood and it ran pretty smoothly. I also had no problem watching videos off of the internet (streaming them). However, I ran into a problem watching videos through my media players. I tried 3 different files, all different types and sizes. I also tried windows media player, divx, and real player. but everytime i tried to play it, that program would just lock up. If it was a small file, i could close it thorugh task manager, but if it was a larger file i would have to restart my computer. what could the problem be?

01-16-2006, 01:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,746 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	check to see if you are missing codecs http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ __________________

01-16-2006, 02:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
shark3189 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 85 OS: Windows XP	I ran that program and it said I had 2 codecs that would work with .AVI files. They were both XviD. Just incase, I tried downloading the newest version of Divx codecs and then tried playing the video, and it still didn't work.

01-17-2006, 07:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
shark3189 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 85 OS: Windows XP	Ok, I finally figured out my problem. For any other people who have a problem running an AGP GeForce 6600 GT 128 mb video card, try doing the following: 1. Right-click on your desktop and go to Properties->Settings->Advanced->Your graphics card (mine said GeForce 6600 GT). 2. Check where it says Bus, and make sure it says AGP. Before, mine said PCI for some reason. 3. If it does say PCI, go to your motherboard site and download drivers that support AGP (I downloaded Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Ulility)