Black screen of death...? (Ti 4200 keeps crashing on me.)

Woodchuck2000

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Jan 20, 2002
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I'm running an Inno3D Geforce 4 Ti4200 (128Mb) at stock speeds on an Abit KX7-333. I'm using the 41.09 detonators but I've had the same problems with the 21.83, 40.82 and the 30.72 versions. It has a habit of crashing randomly in certain games. The screen goes black and the system freezes, but it comes up fine after a reboot.

This happens in:
Max Payne, UT2K3, 3Dmark2001SE and a couple of others.

It does not happen in:
Codecreatures, Empire Earth, the (naughty) Doom III Alpha release and a few others.

I'm completely at my wits end - I'm running everthing in my bios at the most conservative settings I can think of. I've removed the heatsink, applied some proper thermal paste. I've checked my PSU (431W enermax jobbie) and tried the card in a different machine - same thing happens.

Has anyone got any insight into the problem or is it worth sending the card back?