I started suddenly having serious problems with my AGP NX6600GT card. In "desktop mode it was fine, but the moment I tried ANYTHING 3D, it would fail. Major artifacts, stprites, games crashing, you name it. It did it even with DXDiag. It happened out of the blue.
SO... after what would be a very long story to tell (and coming pretty clsoe to an RMA), I came around to replacing the VM-101 I had installed on my card with the orignal stock fan.
And the problems are now gone!
What baffles me is that why it would start doing this all of a sudden when previously it had seemed to run stable and flawless
It leaves me to believe one of two things:
1) The VM-101 does not actually dissipate heat enough to work properly over the long haul. (I.e. wear and tear finally took it's toll? kind of odd...)
2) Possibly the VM-101 got bumped and was touching the heatpipes of the XP-90 (but I would think either this would short the system altogether or at least the video would not work!)
This is a mystery to me. I might do a little more investigation, but I'd like to know your thoughts.
Thanks!