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Bad Vid Card?

Bushwicktrini

Bushwicktrini

Senior member
I'm running a PIV 1.8A on a ASUS P4B533 at stock speeds and i can't play any D3D games with out my colors gettin garbled. The games keep playin but I can't see anything at all just funky colors and my computers dosen't respond to alt-f4 are anything else. If I hit the restart button the screen is still garbled I have to shut down the pc to get back my normal boot screen. I'm thinkin that the vid card is bad. What do you guys think?.

Full sys specs all stock speeds:
Asus P4B533 bios 1011
PIV 1.8A
512 mb Xerox DDR333 ram
Gainward Geforce4 Ti4200
Soundblaster Audigy2
Netgear 10/100 nic
Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm (C)
Maxtor 80gb 5400rpm (D)
Plextor 40/12/40
Pioneer 16x dvd
US Robotics 56kPro
 
if you are still having garbled video after you reset your computer, it definitely sounds like a video card problem. however, i wouldn't immediately go out and buy a replacement just yet. it is possible that you are having problems because of overheating. can you post any temps of your case or cpu?
also, have these problems ever caused a lockup?
you should also download the latest video card drivers, motherboard drivers, and latest version of directx (if you havent already)


if you have another video card lying around, or one in another computer, you might want to see if you still get problems (or if your current video card causes problems on another computer)
 
All driver's are current and my case temp is about 72 and my proc gets as high as 94 (MBM 5.2). As for the lockup yes the system locks hard till I powerdown I will hijack the wife's geforce2 and see what gives
 
I had a similar problem with a geforce 3. Turned out to be a bad video card. Lucky for me, it was still under warranty.
 
Methinks that my warranty is gone 🙁 but I will check it when I get home I saw on another board that this is a gainward problem and they are doing nothing so far to fix it:disgust: I hope this is not true but I might be able to get a NV30/Ati 9700 pro out of this🙂
 
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