Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600 750xp issues

[CyberPsychosis]

well I have been reading through the forum and I noticed people talking about some problems with gainward and the Ti 4200 defective cards.

When I first got this card... I also had the vertical bars and garbled text. When I contacted Gainward and described the problem they immediately said the card was defective and the RAM on the card was bad and gave me a RMA. After sending in my card I recieved the replacement about a week later and I am running it now. Now for the current problem.

This is a Golden Sample card, when I run it in enhanced mode using the EXPERTool software and drivers that came from Gainward I get random lockups. According to the Gainward manual this card is certified to run at this clock settings. I am running in standard mode now (300MHz Core Clock, 648MHz Memory Clock) and I don't have these problems, although I do get random lockups when opening the performance tab using EXPERTool. I am not sure if these lockups are caused by faulty memory on the card, or the software/drivers. Has anyone had similar problems to this? I would run the straight Nvidia drivers but I am not sure how to increase the clock speeds without EXPERTool. Any help would be appreciated.

--Cyber-Psychosis--

 

[Instagib]

I would first remove expert tool and then remove previous drivers. I would then try using the 2890 det. drivers.
As far as overclocking I would use coolbits or Rivatuner. Do not install expert tool.

 

[CyberPsychosis]

Thanks, I have since my previous post upgraded EXPERTools from 2.84 to 2.85. So far I am running with enhanced mode (311MHz Core Clock, 680MHz Memory Clock) enabled and I haven't locked up yet.

But if I have any other problems I will definitely check out those other applications, unless I would find them more useful then the EXPERTool? Do those others have functions that EXPERTools does not?

 

[BarneyFife]

I'm having the same problems. I have garbled text and have to keep on rebooting my computer. This is without even overclocking. I get green stripes when I try to play a mpg. I finally got sick of it today and I'm going to rma it for a different brand since it looks like Gainward has a ton of defective cards out there.

 

[CyberPsychosis]

well Barney I guess you had it slightly better off then me, but a broken card is a broken card. When I got my defective card I had vertical lines with garbled text at system posting... I didn't bother taking it any further then that, I really didn't see the point. According to the tech I talked to at Gainward there is some revision they made that they are replacing the defective cards with. He told me it's better to get it replaced through them, because if I had the retail store replace it I could possible just get another card with the same problems. What really ticks me off about this is the fact that these are Golden Sample cards, which means they have to pass a stringent set of tests on the memory and core. If this is the case then how are all these cards showing up with defective memory?

 

[BarneyFife]

This was my first Gainward purchase and I doubt I'll be making another one anytime soon considering there are many people with problems. It is really weird because it can go long stretches without a problem then all of a sudden my pointer starts to get garbled and then all hell breaks loose. A reboot usually fixes this but I didn't pay $370 to put up with this crap. I guess the stringent memory tests are all a bunch of bs.

 

[draramu]

I also have the bars and colored blocks under the mouse pointer but my card is an MSI geForce4 Ti 4400. I have read lots of posts about gainward having all these problems, but none about MSI. Does anybody else have MSI card problems too? I have sent mine back last wednesday for a replacement but have heard nothing back from them yet.

 

[MustISO]

I'm starting to wonder if it's not a problem with ti4400 boards in general and people are just starting to put two and two together. Here's the forum at MSI where people are having lots of the same issues:

MSI Forum

I ordered an MSI Ti4400 last night and then started doing research (mental note, that's the wrong order). What I found is that most brands seem to have some issues with the garbled text and reboots, etc. I have heard a few reports of a bad batch of BGA memory so that could by why it's affecting more than one maker. I'd like to consolidate the ti4400/ti4600 problems to see if a pattern appears.