XFX 9600GT Black Screen. PLEASE HELP!!!

Okey, so heres my problem. I recantly bought a XFX 9600GT and it's not overclocked, standard 650, 900, 1625.

Whenever I play a game it crashes and gives a black screen with looped sound and I have to restart manually, sometimes it does it automatically after 2-3 seconds.

The crashes are randomly from 30min to 2hr, though I played Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance for 2 and a half hours without any problems, but any other games I've played so far crashes (Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, Unreal Tournament 3 and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty). I've ruled out overheating, but I think it could be my power supply (Hiper HPU-4M580-PU), but I've read other posts with the same problem and they have OC 9600gt cards and have a power supply with 400W+ and 12V with 26A witch is the requirements and they slill have the problem. I'm using 174.16 driver fom nvidia and I tried using the driver that came with the card (171.16), but the same thing happens.

So if theres anyone that could help me I would be very happy!

Okey, so heres my problem. I recantly bought a XFX 9600GT and it's not overclocked, standard 650, 900, 1625.

Whenever I play a game it crashes and gives a black screen with looped sound and I have to restart manually, sometimes it does it automatically after 2-3 seconds.

The crashes are randomly from 30min to 2hr, though I played Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance for 2 and a half hours without any problems, but any other games I've played so far crashes (Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, Unreal Tournament 3 and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty). I've ruled out overheating, but I think it could be my power supply (Hiper HPU-4M580-PU), but I've read other posts with the same problem and they have OC 9600gt cards and have a power supply with 400W+ and 12V with 26A witch is the requirements and they slill have the problem. I'm using 174.16 driver fom nvidia and I tried using the driver that came with the card (171.16), but the same thing happens.

So if theres anyone that could help me I would be very happy!

doooooom

Is your psu dual 12v rails? triple? quad? Single dedicated? If you can get the specifications on your psu and post it it might help. It might also be a card worthy of RMA.. we will see.

so after u "changed" a new card problem occur?

most likely over heat...please check the temperatures.like rivatuner

did you try a clean reinstall? OS, drivers, etc.

that might fix it.

no I didn't try a clean install, I really don't want to do that, have to much installed, that will be my last resort.

I did read on another forum where they pretty much have the same problem, someone there did a clean install, but the same happend.

and whats RMA?doooooom

Basically means a faulty card that needs replacing. Try deleting old drivers then finding the lastest ones for your card, and maybe looking at a better psu, I didn't look at what you already have though.

EDIT: Your power supply should be more than fine, you can safely rule that out.

[QUOTE="doooooom"]and whats RMA?snakehips57

Basically means a faulty card that needs replacing. Try deleting old drivers then finding the lastest ones for your card, and maybe looking at a better psu, I didn't look at what you already have though.

EDIT: Your power supply should be more than fine, you can safely rule that out.

Have already tried that didn't work... uninstalled nvidia driver and used driver cleaner pro 1.5 in safe mode then installed the new one.

Overheating: Usually will cause graphical errors before crashing a game (when GPU is overheating). So it's not that. CPU overheating will cause applications to crash to desktop (if you have intel), so you could check that. Just reach in and touch the heatsink and if you can't keep your finger on it for too long, then it might be overheating (download Nvidia Monitor to see or another application).

My guess: Your RAM is bad. Run "Memtest" (search google). Bad RAM usually leads to crashes while playing games (sound loops). It can happen at random (no set period of time when it crashes).

If it's not that and you've updated ALL drivers (sound, mobo, BIOS, and others) send for an RMA.

I tested the ram with memtest 2.01 and it passed, so it's not that and i'ts not overheating.

So that means it's either the card or the driver. That sucks...

yeah I sent message for RMA today, hopefully I'm not to late (fingers crossed)

yeah I sent message for RMA today, hopefully I'm not to late (fingers crossed)

doooooom

Good luck, graphicas cards can be right b*stards.

Great!! They approved, sending it out today.

Man I'm gonna be so pissed if they don't find anything wrong with it!

Im having the excat same problem with my card!

I have a 650 Watt 12 V rail power supply with 20 A .

Could it be my power supply?

same problems here tried the card on 2 different pcs black screen .also i did notice the fan is set to 0% for 3d mode.

my system amd 6400+ 3.2ghz

3.gb ram 667

gm57sli-s4 gigabyte mobo

700watt psu

my old card is the 8800gts 320megs :)