Asus ti4200 model?

[ClemsonJim]

I received my Asus ti4200 card yesterday from compgeeks and it appears to only be the 512mhz card, although the site clearly states 600mhz. I'm using the nVIDIA drivers. How do I found out which version of the V9280 I have. It was an OEM pull. Still not a bad deal for $102.96 with shipping.

 

[Schadenfroh]

use coolbits and see what clockspeed its at and overclock it

 

[ClemsonJim]

I used coolbits and its at 512mhz. Compgeeks called back today and told me it is the 512mhz and it was a mistake on their website. I did do a little overclocking, but the scores on 3dmark2001 started to decrease around 535mhz. I'll have to do some more testing to find out where the performance reaches its peak.

 

[chizow]

Find out what the rated ns are on the chip. Then run a google search or a search here and find out what the rated ns are on the retail version. If they are the same, they'res a good chance the OEM is just BIOS downclocked and you should be able to push it to a similar clockspeed. Also, make sure to OC your core, as I've yet to see a GF4 do less than ~290MHz.

Chiz

 

[ClemsonJim]

Thanks for the tip Chiz. I looked up the specs on the chip (K4D28163HD-TC40 250MHz 500Mbps). The card I purchased from compgeeks appears to be 4.0ns, while the Asus V9280S (600mhz) uses 3.3ns chips. I'll do some testing on o/c speeds once I finish testing my memory. Compgeeks gave me a $20 in store credit for the advertising error. Hopefully, they'll have something else worthwhile to get.

 

[chizow]

NP, glad it cleared it up a bit for ya. That's still a fine deal on an excellent card. CompGeeks deals come around once in a while, so $20 in-store isn't too bad. You could always pick up some trinkets that you'd feel guilty about spending real money on, like round cables, case fans etc.

Chiz

 

[ClemsonJim]

For some reason odd reason, I think my video card is having serious problems. I reformatted my computer and installed Windows XP. I tried installing the latest nvidia drivers (43.45) and everything goes fine during the installation and I restart the computer as optioned. During the restart, the bios loads and XP starts to load, but then the monitor goes in standby mode, but I can still hear the music load in XP. I have no other option but to power off the system. It takes several tries just to get the bios to start again. When the bios does load, I start Windows in Safe Mode, but the screen is all garbled. After I do the system restore, everything is back to "normal."

When I attempt to install the latest agp driver (1.14), the screen begins to become slightly garbled, but my screen is still displayed at 1280x1024. When I restart the computer everything boots fine, until it gets to loading windows where the scrolling bars become messed up. Windows then loads in another setting and the screen is once again garbled. I've pretty much learned to restore my computer without having to look at the screen.

Today I decided to stop being lazy and test the card on my parents computer. They have a MSI-845G Max card with onboard video. I plugged the Asus Ti4200 in the AGP slot and when I went to turn on the computer, it starts but doesn't boot and the monitor goes in standby mode. As soon as I unplug the card and hook the video cable back to the onboard video everything works fine again.

I went in the bios and changed the Graphics Adapter Priority setting from AGP/Int-VGA to PCI/Int-VGA just in case the computer recognizes it as a PCI card. With the setting at PCI/Int-VGA, the computer boots up, but then the monitor goes into standby, the same as on my computer. Does this mean the card is bad? Or did I miss a step when hooking it up to a computer with onboard video?

 

[Intelman07]

This is what my video card does except it goes into standby mode when trying to play a game! I think it is a bad card. I am gonna RMA mine!

 

[ClemsonJim]

Thanks Intelman07...looks like I'll be doing the same.

 

[Intelman07]

Yeah kinda blows don't it?

 

[ClemsonJim]

Haha...yeah...it sucks really bad. Now I have to wait and get an RMA, then compgeeks has to test it. More time for them to issue me a replacement or refund. I'm hoping for a refund, otherwise it may be over 10 days before I can get my computer going.