GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 01:22How can I disable pipelines on the GeForce 8600 GT, from ASUS? Could you please recommend me a BIOS editor, or something to disable 16 of 32 pipelines on it. I believe this can help me to make it work properly but slower I understand.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 12:18Perhaps you should describe your problem and we might be able to help you more, cause it makes not much sense to disable pipelines.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 12:28Nicolas wrote: How can I disable pipelines on the GeForce 8600 GT, from ASUS? Could you please recommend me a BIOS editor, or something to disable 16 of 32 pipelines on it. I believe this can help me to make it work properly but slower I understand. Mmm, why would you really need to disable pipelines on your GeForce 8600 GT graphics card? And you will not be able to do that via the BIOS as it is not controlled by the BIOS at all. So give us some more information what your issue is and we will see what you should do to resolve it.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 13:20Sorry, the problem is that the image in 3D and DVD movies looks like chess desk, but Windows desktop looks normally. So, I need to disable broken pipelines. One of my friends bought such video card in repairing workshop a few months ago, it had 16 pipelines and worked properly but slower. It was a kind of repairing, but he sold it, and I can't look what was made with it. If the problem can be solved with a soldering iron I'm ready. Sorry for my russian English...
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 13:33If it isn't working properly and you are sure that the card is faulty and that it's not something else you should get it replaced, not try and fix it yourself. If it's out of warranty then I guess there aren't many other options. Please list all of your hardware including brands, perhaps your power supply isn't sufficient.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 14:23Nicolas wrote: Sorry, the problem is that the image in 3D and DVD movies looks like chess desk, but Windows desktop looks normally. So, I need to disable broken pipelines. One of my friends bought such video card in repairing workshop a few months ago, it had 16 pipelines and worked properly but slower. Well if it is like that it means either the core is screwed up or the memory is. And the best way to find out is to first downclock the card, meaning decreasing the clock speeds of both the core and memory by an application like RivaTuner or PowerStrip. Most likely the memory is causing this chess desk and in that case you are out of luck as that means permanent damage that can't be undone.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 18:25I know exactly that the trouble is in GPU, I replaced it there is no warranty, my system is absolutely okay and I have several cards with this trouble, so I need to make them work.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 19:22Nicolas wrote: I know exactly that the trouble is in GPU, I replaced it there is no warranty, my system is absolutely okay and I have several cards with this trouble, so I need to make them work. Yeah, but learn to read we are talking about the graphics card memory which might be faulty and not the GPU itself. Every graphics card has a GPU, the actual graphics processor and supporting memory, like on the GeForce 8600 GT normally some GDDR3 memory. Now you can't replace the GPU itself, only the full graphics card. So downclock the graphics card core and memory clock speed first to make check if that makes a difference.
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/22 23:08You misundertood me. I took the GPU from normal card and put it on a card with such problem, and a GPU from problem card to normal, and a problem moves with the GPU. So the problem is the GPU. It is possible with RivaTuner, but how to make it in hardware, so that the card will work on every computer without RivaTuner?
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Re:GeForce 8600 GT and how can I disable some GPU pipelines? - 2008/05/23 11:45Oh okay, this is really new as I think moving a GPU around is not so easy at least not for just any person to soldering it of the card and back on another. But okay, you seem to be able to do it and in that case the GPU is screwed up and if you want to disable some pipelines your only option is RivaTuner. There is nothing in the BIOS that will do it. It is controller via software to not use certain pipelines, unless you can also do laser cutting actions on the GPU which we can't help you with RivaTuner is your only option to disable some pipelines.
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