hey guys ok, recently this card started to play up, at random times, sometimes after playing any 3d game, the screen just goes all weired, its displays, colour full lines/boxes all over the screen, and crashes, I'm not sure why this has started to happene!? been working fine for just under a year now!, I did a bit of research, which suggests that the video card has gone bad and needs a replacement? any ideas welcome!
tried already had no luck! just a few hours ago, it happened while going though hardware forums, so the graphics card is bad!
dont have any other cards or system though still have my voodoo 2 somewhere, so if the geforce doent work, gona have to use it unti I get a new one, lol
Well it's better than nothing ! When I was testing my GF2 MX400 for some problem, I swapped with a ATI Rage 128 Pro, and although the performance was twice as bad as the GF, the image quality was actually a lot better ! I did keep the GF though I was gonna' say you could try it anyway but it'd be more relevant to try with an agp card... If you need a new card, what do you think you're gonna' buy ?
hmmmm, well I prob wont spend too much on a card cuz I plan to buy a whole new system sometime in the future! I'd prob get a ATI or Geforce prob max around £80, should get a decent card. So when it comes to a new system, I can link up and play against my bros.
ok, I found an old AGP SIS card I had, using that now, cuz the problem was happening more often! lets see how this card does, I can tell you it def cant play games, lol, its got 8MB RAM!
yeh, oh well !!! anyway I'm sending the card of to Gainward to get a replacement! have to pay for return P&P though! gone though the process of contacting support etc and got the required details to send it off, now when I get the time I will, until then no decent 3d games!
definate hardware problem.. i had the same problem with my geforce 4 ti|4600 ... tried just about everything software wise.. i put in a geforce fx 5600 256mb and it runs great.. i also tried my radeon 9500 and that worked great too.. =\ peice o crap =\
Yeah, the Gainward Ti4200's have been known to be a problem for many people. Gainward is usually pretty good, but the QC on their Ti4200 was awful.