Fried Video Card? Please Help!

[GreedyBumps]

I have Gainward GeForce 4 TI 4400, Epox 8KHA+, AMD 2000+, 512 Ram. All of the sudden last week I started getting blue and orange spots all over the screen after about 5 minutes of the computer running. At that point I would typically get a "critical device failure" notice and would go into 640x480 mode. Sometimes problems will be right at boot up with garbled text. Is my video card fried?

I installed my old Voodoo 3 card and computer seems to be doing fine. It is just that is starts beeping sometimes if I do graphically intensive games with the card. Can this possibly mean that my GeForce is not at fault and it is something else?

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[GreedyBumps]

morning bump ^^^

trying to see if there are any suggestions before I mail in the video card.

 

[Sleek]

Try taking your GeForce 4 out of your motherboard for about 5 minutes or so, then put it back in. This worked once for me when I was getting almost the same exact problems as you, but I couldnt even get into windows. If this doesn't work, I would RMA it, but that's your call.