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| Thread ID: 35358 | 2003-07-10 01:40:00 | Dodgy Video Card | Dylan (800) | Press F1 |
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| 158606 | 2003-07-10 01:40:00 | Hi I have had a new graphics card for about 4 months. It started going sour about 3 weeks ago. Its a Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti4200 (www.leadtek.com.tw). I get random pixels showing up on the screen and miss-placed vertex's on models in D3D games and sometimes the entire system locks up. I initially thought it was heat so i monitored the temps. On a average Auckland day trashing the card on Battlefield 1942 for 4 hours, temps on reached a max of 40 degrees. I have reinstalled drivers, tried different ones, beta drivers, reformated, underclocked it, tried different bios settings and so on. The only thing I need to test now would be to try it in another computer and try a different graphics card in this system to eliminate the motherboard as the problem. Do you know anything else I can try to fix the problem or is it better just to get the card replaced/repaired. Thanks in advance Dylan |
Dylan (800) | ||
| 158607 | 2003-07-10 01:54:00 | Have you tried running 3D Mark and seeing if fails on a test as a pointer to your problem. But as the card is only 4mths old. I would take it back to your retailer and get a refund or another one. |
KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 158608 | 2003-07-10 02:10:00 | Problem caused by faulty capacitor on the video card, which is manufactured in Taiwan (apparently some Taiwanese company stole a capacitor blueprint from a Japanese co and didn't get it quite right). The problem mainly appears in cold weather. I had this problem with my Gainward GeForce 4 4600 and went through 4 replacement cards from the supplier before the problem was resolved. There was something in a PCWorld a whilst back about this. |
overkill (4199) | ||
| 158609 | 2003-07-10 03:33:00 | >I initially thought it was heat so i monitored the temps. On a average Auckland day trashing the card on Battlefield 1942 for 4 hours, temps on reached a max of 40 degrees. so what temp did you measure? cpu? case? video card? what motherboard do you have and what drivers are you useing? what directX have you got installed? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 158610 | 2003-07-11 06:23:00 | temp sensor = GPU, case temps = 32 degrees motherboard drivers = nForce 2.03 Direct X = 9.0 GPU drivers tried = 44.05 dets, 43.45 dets, bundled leadtek drivers. ive heard of the capacitor problem... thought it might be the case. is there any physical damage when the capacitors are faulty e.g the cap has blown or something. (my sound card is below it and i dont want sulfuric acid leaking on it!) might try flashing the video bios. starlyte still havn't replied... i might send another email tonight |
Dylan (800) | ||
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