Geforce 6600 on rs480m2: s3 issues?

I have the following question:
did anybody succeed to install a geforce 6600 on a rs480m2 without standby problems?
I have installed a xfx geforce 6600 (passive, low profile, 256 mb) on this motherboard. Without the card I have no problems with resume from s3 standby (ati catalyst 6.2, bios 3.9), with the card it resumes from standby but the screen stays black (forceware 81.98). I hope that anyone succeeded and give me some tips about best drivers.
I use the pc for mce2005 and I have installed all possible windows updates.

Update after question to msi technical support:
My question:
I own a rs480m2 mainboard with a venice 3000+ cpu. I use this setup for mce2005. Resume from s3 standby gives no problems when I use the onboard gpu (ati catalyst 6.2 and bios 3.9). When I add a xfx geforce 6600 gpu the system does resume from standby but the screen stays black (forceware 81.98). Is this a known issue with this board and can you recommend what I should do (drivers, bios,...)
The 6600 gpu gives also hangups when watching livetv, on the forum I saw that there are more members with compatibility issues between geforce 6600 and this mainboard. Can you help me?
Their answer:
Sorry we haven't receive the same issue yet. Would you please try to contact to your VGA card vendor for update the BIOS the install the latest driver. Also we would suggest you try to change another PSU with higher power.
Is this a problem of the VGA card, I cannot find a new bios for this card? I use a 400 W Elan Vital PSU, could that be the problem?
Am I really the only one having problems?

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Please let me know what happens
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