MSI NX6600GT RIP

MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 GeForce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 AGP
Purchased 1/21/2005 4:14:00 PM
Lastnight it died 3/25/2008 ,My daughter was playing a game and said smells like something burning.
I shut it down quick .The card was hot and the fan was dangling from the card .
gary

And another 6600 bites the big one. Been a lot of those, also 6800.

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[GeForce PCe] MSI NX6600GT PCi-e ?

Hi there,
I have 2 MSI NX6600GT 128 running in SLi mode. When I goto use MSI Turbo Experience it comes up with a screen that says:
"MSIVGA.ocx initialization error". I have 71.84 drivers and all other drivers are installed. It also happened with the 66.93 drivers that came on the CD and so I updated. I contacted MSI and they told me to read the forums here as there most likely would be a solution. I built this system from the ground up myself. I have had no troubles with it. I can play games like MVP2005 and Doom3 with no probs. But sometimes when I goto load up a saved game playing Silent Hunter 3 starts to initialize then goes to the desktop (this has happened very rarely). I haven't overclocked anything I won't be doing that. I only have a few games installed as I am taking things slowly. My GPU temps are 48c idle and after playing Doom 3 for about an hour are 60c. CPU is 35c and case temp is 43c. I have a 120mm fan blowing in from the front and 2 80mm fans exhausting. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
System specs:
MSI NEO4 Platinum SLI mobo
AMD64 3500+ 512K 90nm cpu
2x MSI NX6600GT TD128e vid cards (SLI mode)
4x 512mb Kingmax SuperRam Dual Channel(2gig)
450 watt PS 22amps on the 12v rail
Super Tanlent Dual fan memory cooler
2x 200gb WD SE 8mb HDD's (IDE)
2x Memorex DVD 16x burners
2x CoolDrive 3 for HDD's
19" Sceptre LCD monitor
if I forgot anything sorry

Kick MSI Turdo Experience to the curb (get rid of it)
It's more of a sales gimmick, then really being usefull in most cases.
If it continues, you may want to start all over from scratch and get the latest drivers here nVidia Drivers
I always avoid drivers on the CD at all costs and the manufacturer's drivers as well. Unless of course there is a known problem or issue that mandates use of the manufacturer's drivers. Otherwise, always get the latest drivers from the chipset vendor.
Also, a bit tedious is trolling forums for any clues as to what everone else is using without issue, you'll at least have an educated head start.

URGENT HELP: PC can't post after Bios Update on MSI NX6600GT-VTD128

The LiveBIOS utility on my PC showed that there was an updated BIOS of my MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 that I was using and I proceeded to update using the facility.
Everything seem fine until the system was rebooted, now the system refuse to post. All I see when I power on the system is a moment of power (e.g. I can see the lights on my keyboard and card reader), before they also disappear.
My system is a P4 2.4 Northwood running on a MSI 875P. I had already cleared the CMOS on my motherboard but it didn't help. I would appreciate greatly for any advice.

Quote from: Glenn on 24-September-06, 14:26:51
Common mistake.
Unfortunately, the cure is likely to be painful.
Did you disable your Antivirus and Firwall before doing such a thing?
Video cards aren't like motherboards, and just updating for the simple fact that it's available is wrong regarding BIOS's for anything.
You should have a specific reason to do so.
Now, did you backup your old BIOS?
You may need to contact MSI directly to get the original BIOS and use a PCI video card so you can boot and see what you are doing to reflash your AGP card.
How to contact MSI.
Thanks for the advice. And you are right, the cure is painful, particularly, when I didn't back up the old BIOS and neither do I have a PCI graphics card lying around.
I did deactivated my antivirus whilst flashing, and there was no firewall running.

Compatibility between MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 and motherboard

Hi guys, I want to know if there's compatibility between my motherboard "MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R AGP8X" and the "MSI NX6600GT-VTD128" because I want to buy this Video Card but my doubt is about the compatibility or maybe some errors, and I have a 400W Power Supply.. that's ok for this video card?... thnx !!!

hi, how are you.
wel there are no cmpatibility issue with this motherboard and the video card... or i am not notify about...
but do you have to give "us" (all posiblle reply) more info about your pc, anyway the only limitation about it's the slot used, that motherboard uses agp8x and you have to buy a 6600vtd agp 8x, because thera are one model pci express that's all
the power issue: not a issue realy 400w power source are just enough
th real monster are hte 6800 family that need 470w or something like that to work fine
ok i hope best to you and your newer card, and tellme how works this magnificent piece of technological art(in middle rank) and the capture feature with onchip video processor
byee!!

Compatibility ?? MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 with chaintech motherboard ?

hi
i have bought recently this MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 and install it on chaintech 7VIL4 with 512 ddr athlon 2800+ 400W psu and cant start the pc black screen no boot only fan working.... so my seller told me that maybe it is not compatible wat do you think about this ???
thanks for helping i try everything except install it on other pc
bye

Just because yours has more watts doesn't mean it is more powerful.
Check out this topic https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=76923.0
Also please post the max amps for your powersupply on the 3.3v 5v and 12v rails. This info can be found on a sticker on the side of the PSU.
Good Luck
Jeremy

MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 & MSI "3D! Turbo Experience"

Hi,
yesterday I bought a MSI NX6600GT-VTD128. The card is running fine. I also installed the MSI tool "3D! Turbo Experience". However, the tool does not show any relevant information: no voltage, no memory clock, no fan speed...

Hi,
As most will probably agree, 3D turbo is not a very useful piece of software. Your best bet is not to use it. There are lots of 6600GT posts here that address the monitoring issues of that card.
For memory clock and OC'ing you can use the coolbit reg update. You can find a good write-up in the stickies at the top of the forum.
Good Luck,

MSI NX6600GT-TD128E SLI Help

Hi all
I have two Problems.
1. I can’t OverClock my MSI NX6600GT Cards in SLI
2. If I run a fast game like Colin McRae Rally 04 or Colin McRae Rally 05. After 3 -5 min of playing the game, The Pc screen will slit in two & the bottom half of the screen will go all funny. And then the PC will Lockup.
Any help.
PS. I'm not getting very good score on AquaMark3 only 57,000 But was getting 63,000.
Amd winchester 939 3200+
1Gig of Kingston pc3200 512M
Asus A8N-SLI
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E X 2 (PCI-Express)
600w power supply
1xLED fans
2xExhaust fans

If the game is using a profile that uses SFR the screen is split in two horizontally ... pls see below
Single frame rendering
Single frame rendering (SFR) mode in NVIDIA SLI works similarly to Metabyte’s PGC in the sense that the graphics card splits the workload horizontally across the screen. One card takes the upper portion while the second card takes the lower segment. The frame buffer data is then combined and sent to the monitor.
It’s important to note that SFR doesn’t necessarily split the screen directly down the middle; in some scenes the lower portion of the screen may be more complex than the upper portion, or vice versa. NVIDIA has developed custom load-balancing algorithms that are designed to take this into account, and split the screen appropriately – if one GPU takes longer to render, no problem, the driver just gives that GPU less work to do.
Alternate frame rendering
Up to now, ATI’s Rage Fury MAXX was arguably the most well known card to take advantage of alternate frame rendering. Rather than splitting the work up every frame like in SLI, with AFR, each graphics core handled alternate frames. Graphics core one would handle everything in frame 1, while graphics core two would then handle frame number 2. Each chip renders every other frame instead of alternating lines in the same frame, as 3dfx had done with scan-line interleave. If one GPU doesn’t finish drawing its frame, the remainder is pushed to the second GPU. This is the same concept NVIDIA has employed for their SLI technology, only we’re dealing with two distinct graphics cards, rather than two graphics cards on the same core.
The most well known downside with AFR has been perceived “lag” that may be felt by some twitch players in very fast-paced first-person shooters such as Quake 1 or Quake 3. The argument is that user inputs, such as a quick flick of your wrist to nail your opponent in mid-air with your rail gun may feel lagged. In theory, this could happen when the second AFR scenario we described occurs – GPU1 doesn’t finish its frame and the remainder is passed to GPU2 – there could be a lag between the key being pressed and the output being shown on the screen. Ironically enough, NVIDIA used this same argument to tout their GeForce 256 over Rage Fury MAXX five years ago.
We played a little Half-Life 2 (which uses AFR by default) to test out this theory, but didn’t perceive any additional lag during our “testing” sessions. Buffering kicks in when data is split between GPUs, and it appears to work well. Also keep in mind that today’s shooters aren’t as fast-paced as they were a few years ago.
Currently, AFR is NVIDIA’s preferred mode for SLI. In general, AFR uses less communications overhead (as no communications overhead between GPUs is used as long as frames are contained to each GPU), allowing it to scale better than SFR. NVIDIA also says that applications with heavy vertex loads benefit less from SFR.

[GeForce 6] MSI NX6600GT, no boot with KM400 board.

Three days ago I bougt a MSI NX6600GT VTD128 Videocard. Unfortonately I am not able to boot at all with my KM400 mainboard with the VIA chipset. On advice I found on the internet I bought a more powerfull 420 Watt PSU wich did not solve the problem.
When turning on the power all fans and drives come up, but the only LED what's on is the HDD LED wich is constantly on. Not even the powerLED comes on and I don't even get a POST. When replacing the 6600 by my older Radeon 9200SE everything is working allright. I played around with my BIOS settings such as AGP drinving control and 4X, 8X, but nothing seems to help. Finally I begin to doubt if my 6600 card is compatible with my KM400 board.
Can anybody help me what to do else?

Quote from: Apple renegade on 23-September-05, 20:18:18
Hmm...thought u had a MSI KM400
Try tis bunch of changes in BIOS:
AGP voltage: 1,6v
Fast-write (if it's there): Off
AGP speed: 4x
Be sure to disable the onboard !!!
I can only change the AGP drive control. I tried B9h, CCh, DCh. Non of them with succes. I cannot find the AGP voltage in my AwardBIOS. I also cannot see an option to disable the onboard.

[GeForce 6] MSI NX6600GT GC

Using Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS9) with MSI nx6600gt GC cause problems.
If I want to use fsnavigator with fs9 I have to set the drivers to force 8*S AA and 16* AF. Fsnavigator works properly but now FS9 doesn't show any picture for the selected aircraft (only a black picture)
But when I run FS9 with MSI FX5200 everything is all right and when I use NX6600GT i have the problem.
Could someone tell me why? The problem may come from the card itself ?
Any help would be much appreciated.

monicatang,
It could be a Driver issue, try the latest DirectX and the latest nVidia ForceWare Drivers
Take Care,
Richard

MSI NX6600GT causing reboot

Hi every time i try to load a game or go onm google earth my system shuts down and reboots. I recently did a full reinstall of XP pro and had to reinstall the drivers for my MSI NX6600GT. The drivers i installed first were the latest MSI drivers but i had the same problem so i instaled the latest Nvidia forceware drivers and i still have the same problem. My card is MSI NX6600GT AGP. Can anyone help please? ???

Quote from: Richard on 28-February-07, 00:42:40
zigyzigger,
Before I forget, try the Vid Card in another comp to see if the problem follows the Vid Card or stays with the comp.
Take Care,
Richard
Good idea. Try another PSU with your rig, if possible.

MSI NX6600GT-VTD128SP

I just bought a new video card (MSI NX6600GT-VTD128SP ) an put it on my pretty new mobo its a MS-6741. ok after installing it i wanted to updaste my drivers an mobo bios ,so i installed MSI live montor.Prob lem is after the bois flash i now get 2 beets on post,but everythings loads including windows xp.But 2 times now in the last 2 days it froze an said mem dump something. What is the right thing for me to do?

I am locking your threads until you learn to post in the proper forums.
I sent this thread to from the nVidia to the VIA Forum for A64 but I am not even sure if is even a mobo is even the correct model:
K8TM-ILSR
Richard

MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 - locking up in games

Hi everyone,
I've been looking round these forums for the past few days since installing my new 6600GT card on Christmas in an attempt to fix the stability issues I'm having. From other threads I've tried such things as:
- Changing drivers (currently running the latest 71.22 drivers despite there being a CRC error in the NVCPZHT.HL_ file on extraction...they installed without complaint...). I was seeing the same freezing issues with the standard 66.93 NVIDIA drivers though.
- Updating my NFORCE drivers through LiveUpdate to the latest version (3.75)
- Updating my K7N2-Delta motherboard BIOS version (MS-6570 up to the latest 7.80 BIOS).
- Setting the 2D and 3D clock speeds to the same (originally my 2D was set to 300Mhz and the 3D was 500Mhz). I tried bringing the 2D up to 500Mhz, but games still freeze.
Prior to installing this MSI card I had run a Leadtek GeForce 4200Ti for a couple of years without a problem. One thing worth mentioning was that after upgrading my motherboard BIOS to the latest version all of the settings were restored to the default values (expected). However, I forgot to bring the clock speed of my FSB up from 100Mhz to the normal 166Mhz for a couple of reboots. My processor was only running at 1.1Ghz instead of the stock 1.8Ghz, and funnily enough I didn't have a single crash at this underclocked setting. Games ran quite poorly, but they didn't crash!
I'm hoping someone will be able to come up with some more suggestions for me.

Hi Aussie,
yes, "sort of", because I believe that MSi (and most of the other manufacturers as well) had done better spending some more weeks of developing a perfect card, but I think christmas came close, so probably it HAD to be out on the market soon. It's only small things, wrong logo on the manual, wrong labels on the video-out cables, and of course the delivery of defective devices, which can happen with any other manufacturer as well, but I have read of soooooo many people getting a defective one in the first run, that I simply cannot believe that this is still the "normal" margin.......... Well, good quality assurance and perfect details make a brand attractive, that's why I always loved MSI, but I'm beginning to miss that more and more......
If you get a working one, I still believe that the MSI 6600GT is one of the best choices, especially because of that silent fan and the huge software bundle......
cu,
Jackie

Msi Nx6600gt -td128e

Hi,
Will this graphic card work with power supply at 300 Watt?
My system is:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4E, 3000 MHz Socket L775
POwer supply : 300 Watt
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I915G-MF
Motherboard Chipset Intel Grantsdale-G i915G
System Memory 480 MB
Graphic card Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family (128 MB)
3D Acclerator Intel GMA 900
Monitor Acer AL1721 [17" LCD]
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, S-ATA NCQ, 7.200RPM, 8MB cache, 160GB

Power supply in my comp. is Huntley 6300HP, 300 Watt with max. load of 15A at 12 V.
This MSI N6600GT-TD128E will not be used to overclocking! I tried the suggested Wattage counter and ended with around 300 Watt, although 6600 cards are not listed!
Maybe I should stick to MSI PCX5750-TD128E, as I'm not a game freak, and just need a better card in my system than Intel's built-in.

[nVidia] MSI NX6600GT TD128E vGPU Mod

I finally found a pic of the volt mod that I did to my MSI 6600GT card.
Replacing the standard cooling system with something more efficient, for example with a water-cooling solution, and pulling up the voltages are the traditional means of increasing the overclockability of a graphics card.
The graphics card under question has GDDR3 memory chips from Samsung, known for their low overclockability which doesn’t grow much even after a voltage increase. So I didn’t tamper with the memory voltage on the reference card at all – it wasn’t worth the trouble.
The overclockability of the graphics processor is another matter, as we deal with NVIDIA’s first GPU made with the 0.11-micron tech process. The thinner tech process and the smaller transistor count in comparison to the GeForce 6800 series should render this chip capable of working at higher clock rates.
Let’s check it out. The core voltage regulator is based on the ISL6534 chip from Intersil. It is a dual-channel pulse-width controller capable of driving a line regulator. One of the channels supplies power to the GPU. Unlike the regulators on GeForce FX 5950 Ultra or FX 5900 Ultra cards, which have digital inputs for setting the output voltage level and capable of adjusting the output voltage “on the fly”, this chip uses a resistor devisor for setting the output voltage.
Curiously enough, the NVIDIA engineers made this regulator change the output voltage “on the fly”, too. Receiving the control signals from the GPU’s registers, two transistors attach resistors with preset resistances to the devisor, thus adjusting the voltage value. Voltage regulators on NVIDIA GeForce 5900 XT cards employ the same idea, by the way.
In order to lift the voltage of the graphics processor, you only must reduce the resistance of one of the divisor’s resistors. That’s exactly what I did:
You can see the controller chip of the voltage regulator in the top left corner of the snapshot, while the output voltage control scheme and the two resistors of the devisor are in the center. The arrows point to the spots I soldered an additional variable resistor to. If you want to test the vmod before you make it permanent, just scribble a little #2 pencil lead (graphite) over the resistor. This will lower the resistance and basically do the same thing that the potentiometer is dong. However, it's not nearly as easy to controll the voltage that way.
This pic shows where you check the core voltage:
In doing this, I was able to increase my core speed up to 680 Mhz!

To do the pencil mod, scribble over the resistor that has the two wires added in the first picture. The second picture is where you can measure your vgpu voltage.
Edit: The two pictures are actually two different cards, as I couldn't actually find a vMod for a MSI 6600GT anywhere on the 'net. That's why one pic is green one is red. But you are correct. The scribble of the pencil goes on the resistor between the two arrows.

3d experience and msi nx6600gt td128e/k8n sli platinum

just finished installing all the drivers updates etc for my new system...
installed the 3d turbo experience prgm that came on the cd with my graphics card. the prgm runs at startup, but when i go to open the main window i get the following error
MSIVGA.ocx initialization error
how can i fix this and get it to work????

Read the stickies, there's a thread "Alternative to MSI drivers and Overclocking too" there is a link to the DOT page at MSI, it's pretty straightforward.
MSI's DOT is a Dynaminc overclocking utility that takes most of the guesswork out of it and is supposedly safer than manual overclocking.

MSI NX6600GT RIP

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