Help Geforce4 Ti4200 Problems

[Capcom2]

I got a Geforce4 Ti4200 running for about a year... last week i started to have problems with it ... it seems that whenever i play games for some amount of time... the Video Would just go stand by and you can still hear the sound for about 20-30 second b4 it stops... the problem with the VideoCard is random.. sometimes i would just play for a whole day without problem.. sometimes it'll apear after playing for an hour...

The Fan has already been replaced by a Thermaltake ( way better than the default ) , if i touch the HSF and Memsink it's just warm and not HOT.. so means there's no sign of overheating

and i'm sure it's not the system cause i tried the card on other PC's and it also showed the same problem...



Intel Pentium IV 2.4Ghz
MSI 845 Motherboard
Inno3d Geforce4 Ti4200 128MB
MS Windows XP
512 KingMax DDR333
Creative SBLive 128

 

[johnjkr1]

If the card has the same problem on two different systems, with two different monitors, sorry, it is dead. Send it off for an RMA. If you've tried different drivers, you'll have to replace it. The only other thing I can think of is you are trying to run it at too high a refresh/desktop size, but that seems unlikely.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Touching the heatsinks and finding them only warm may not mean there's no overheating, it might mean the contact isn't good. Does it work longer when you play certain games and crash faster with others? When you replaced the heatsink did you clean the old gunk off very well and use good stuff on the new one?

Leave the case open with a small fan blowing into it for a few days, and see if the crashing goes away. It may not necessarily be the video card causing the problems. If the mainboard stops supplying enough power to the AGP port (or the PSU is bad), it might cause the video to die while the rest continues to run.

 

[Capcom2]

Well i just re-clean the surfaces between the two.. and applied Artic Silver.. instead of the regular goop....

and about the crashes.... it always happens.. even if i leave it on stanby...

any idea's on how can i know if the PSU is supplying enough power ?

 

[johnjkr1]

If you have two different power supplies doing the same thing, it is pretty hard to suspect the power supply as the cause of the problem.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Unless they're both crappy ones.

 

[Strikerzz]

Check the card and look at all the capacitors (round cylinder thingys) if any of them are bulged out at all then that could be your problem right there, they should be perfectly flat. if they are send it in for an rma... if you modded the card and threw away the parts you took off your SOL if you do have them just put them back on and make them look normal then send it in for an RMA.