GF4 Ti4200 problem

[Fritz]

I've had this card for a year and 4-5 months and all of a sudden yesterday it started being weird - while playing C&C Generals suddenly the textures disappeared and a second later the PC crashed completely. Never had this problem before and have been playing the game for months. When I restarted and win (win xp pro) loaded, in a minute it crashed again and when I restarted it messed up the OS choice menu and crashed... I turned it off for some time. Later in the evening I played C&C again for two hours and not a glitch. I had forgotten about that when today I got the precise same crash. I'm getting scared. The card isn't overclocked. Are there any utilities that can check if everything is OK with it? What should I do if the problem persists?...

 

[pauldh]

Is it made by Gainward?


ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 1GB Corsair XMS 4000 Pro Series, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt

 

[randy66]

is the fan working?

 

[randy66]

why do you ask if gainward ?
I have one ,GF4-4200-8x
known problems ?

 

[pauldh]

I remember reading alot of people had sudden problems with Gainward Ti4200's after about a year of trouble free use. I thought is was their original 4X releases.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 1GB Corsair XMS 4000 Pro Series, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt

 

[Croaker]

I have a Gainward Ti4200 in one of my computers. I had to RMA the card due to the pink checkerbox problem. It died after the 1 year warranty and they fixed it from free(I paid 1 way shipping). The problem was cheap capacitors. It looked like they just replaced 2 capacitors and sent my card back to me.

 

[Fritz]

It's an Albatron GeForce4 Ti4280TD "Medusa" 8x 128MB. Fan is working fine, along with several additional fans in the case and air conditioning are keeping quite cold. I simply have no idea why all of a sudden I get this problem...

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Fritz on 07/22/04 10:36 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[randy66]

you might ask "Dr Pro" over at the Albatron site.
any recent software installed / try un-install ?
ck for spyware / virus ?
if all else fails , the card has a 3 yr labor warranty
your cost would only be for the repl part only

 

[atfihunred]

Is there any possibility you've added some components lately and have put a strain on the powersupply?
If it's a 250 watt'r you could be in compromise...
Also, I have a Ti4600. I had clocked it up and back a few times and ran into driver instability issues.
I downloaded a choice graphic driver and my problem miraculously disappeared.

AM37 2200+XP
Maxtor 160 Gb 7200/8mb
640mb Kingston
PNY(MSI 8872)GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb