TI 4200 Crashes on Far Cry Demo

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what driver version are you using
"MrSmileey" <alexulan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi folks here is the story and from reading this forum its quite a
> common one.
>
> I have a 2.4GH Intel P4 on an ASUS P4S8X motherboard.
>
> 512MB DRAM.
>
> I originaly had a 350W power supply.
>
> I was lead to belive that the reason my system was crashing was due to
> a underpowered poower supply. I'm currently runninga 420W power
> supply.
>
> I have GF4 TI4200 128MB card.
>
> When I run into the Caverns in the Far Cry Demo or run the 3DMARK03
> DEMO.
> During the WWII Irplane dog fights the machine hangs.
> Here is a qute from another user that was having similar issues:
>
> "I'm having crashing problems in games when the video card heats up,
> or at
> least that's what I think is happening!!
> When it heats up too much, it crashes, and then loses the signal to
> the
> monitor, making the monitor go into a power saving mode."
>
> This is also my symptoms.
> The system is very stable unless the graphics cards is pushed and then
> the monitor goes POP like it lost sync, the screen goes blank.
>
> Any trouble shooting advice would be helpfull.
>
> the card is now over a year old and i really don't have the funds to
> spend $200 on a new graphic card.
>
> Any thing I can do to up the AGP voltage in the motherboard or
> something like that to make the card more stable?