Anyone wanna take a wild guess about what this problem is?

[Woodchuck2000]

I'm completely out of Ideas...
I've got a 128Mb ti4200 made by inno3D.
It's been exhibiting weird behaviour.

Under WinXP - Randomly crashes during 3D games and 3DMark. Screen goes black, nothing happens.
Under Win2K - Loadsa visual artifacts. 3DMark just dies randomly and returns to desktop.

Both running 40.72 detonators and the new VIA drivers (whatever they're called...)

Any speculation about the cause would be appreciated. I'm leaning towards 'dodgy video card' but I'm hoping it's something else.

 

[Reel]

I had problems where anything 3d intensive such as games would freeze the computer.

I have a gigabyte motherboard that would have power problems whenever the AGP card needed lots of power. (This is not the same as power supply problems.) The fix for my case was to kick up the CPU input voltage by 10% (no overclocking here) and that eliminated my crashes.

Occasionally, I would also have problem with compatibility on the video card drivers too. You can also try installing older drivers or beta drivers.

 

[sparrow18]

Have a Leadtek GeForce4 Ti440, same problem, reboot itself everytime play graphic intensive game, very bad. Problem sourced out as faulty video card, still having it under warranty and repairing......in the meantime, back to TNT2 (any of you still remember what TNT2 is?) LOL

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Thanks for the suggestions, reelcool.
I've just tried installing the card in my brother's Duron 850 system. It kept on crashing until I installed VIA's hyperion drivers. It's just completed a 3Dmark loop so I'm thinking that it might be a power issue as you say. I've got a 430W PSU and my voltages are fine but I hadn't thought of giving my CPU voltage a good kick. Is it worth increasing the AGP voltage as well?

Just out of interest, what motherboard is it? I'm using an Abit KX7-333.

Failing that, I'll follow sparrow18 and try to get a new one.

Cheers guys.

 

[Reel]

My mobo is Gigabyte 7VRXP, KT333 chipset. The problem was determined to be something like the AGP card + CPU were competing for voltage. So when the AGP needed more voltage (intensive 3d games etc), the CPU lost voltage and would hit a point where it did not have enough voltage to run and froze up. I don't think I had an option to increase the AGP voltage in my BIOS so I don't know if that will help.

Be careful when increasing the voltages though because you can raise the temperatures in your case.

 

[Smilin]

The Last few generations of vid cards (especially nvidia) have been teetering on the edge of pulling too much power from the AGP slot. That's ma guess.