Gainward Ti 4200 Problems

[Beavis97]

Just received my new Geforce 4, and I've been pretty unhappy with it so far. Whenever I get into a 3D game, the card displays heavy glitches and graphic anomalies, after which it just freezes. Freezing only occurs in heavy 3D scenes. I can play Diablo2, for example, in D3D mode, and it will just flash squares and such on the screen but won't freeze. 2D graphics work perfectly as far as I can tell.

AGP port is working because my previous card, TNT2, worked perfectly.
Tried updating to latest Via 4-in-1 drivers with no result.
Used both the latest reference drivers from Nvidia's site, as well as the drivers from the Gainward CD.
Absolutely no overcloking was done on the card, so I highly doubt it's a heat problem.

Any ideas?

 

[Hessakia]

Originally posted by: Beavis97
...Absolutely no overcloking was done on the card, so I highly doubt it's a heat problem...

Eh, words that are never good to hear--check to see if your HSF on your GeForce 4 is working correctly--ya never know until you try.


Also, are you using beta Direct X? that happened to me once.


hess.

 

[Beavis97]

Just got it fixed. Went to the bios and set every setting to the lowest, that seemed to fix it. It was either the RAM settings or the fact that it was running AGP 4X.

I'll have to bump each one up until I figure out what it is.

Thanks for you help though. 🙂

 

[Cheep]

You have an Abit KT7A mobo? Known problems, which are supposedly corrected by the new BIOS updates from Abit.

 

[Beavis97]

Yep, that was the exact problem. Had to update the bios and mess around with the AGP drive strength settings to get it running at AGP 4X without crashing.