help: crashing videocard

menards

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Jan 13, 2005
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Hi, my videocard on my other pc crashes whenever I play games.

What happens exactly is my monitor goes black, and I can't return to windows. I tried alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del, alt-F4.... nothing seems to work. I always have to restart.

At first it was because I was playing at high graphics settings. Lowering it all made it not crash. But this was before. Now even at the lowest settings, it crashes after about say 15 minutes.

Could underclocking it solve the problem? I forgot how to hehe.

specs:

GeForce 4 Ti 4200

Northwood P4 2.4GHz
mainboard: ASUS P4B533-V
memory: Kingston 512MB DDR PC2100

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Athlon64 Newcastle, 2800+, 640KB Cache, 1800 MHz
MSI K8M Neo-V, VIA K8M800 + 8237 chipset
Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 256MB
 

cleeve

Illustrious
Either your videocard, or your PSU is dying.

What PSU you got there, menard?

Might be temperature related, too. How's the videocard fan working?

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