Geforce 4 Ti Glitching problems

[JonUK]

I recently got a PNY Geforce 4 Ti 4200 off eBay but it appears that it is broken. The card itself looks ok physically nothing is broken or bent on the card. When its installed into the machine in my sig it does not work correctly with either new or older drivers.

I get red, blue and yellow squares appearing on diffrent textures in games like Doom 3 and Star Wars: KOTOR as well as the point sprites test in 3Dmark2001se being completely corrupted and see-through (The test with the spinning horse) no corruption is evident in any other tests in 3dmark.

The machine has also hard-locked when in-game.

The card has been tested in another machine, using diffrent drivers. I have uninstalled all the drivers and re-installed for each fresh attempt. Exactly the same result.

Also in the latest Geforce drivers 61.77 the card comes up as being in the Quadro 4 XGL family on the info page.

My feelings towards this is that the card may have been overclocked and/or over heated and damaged the GPU's core or the cards memory.

I have e-mailed the seller and provided photos of the monitor actually displaying the corruption. What are your opinions on this? Is there any likely cause I'm overlooking?

Thanks
Jon

 

[CubanlB]

Sounds like a bad card, I had one of those cheap Gainwards back when 4200's where new that did something similar, and I sent it back to newegg and got a new one. Good luck getting your stuff sorted out.

 

[Insomniak]

Sounds like someone toasted the memory in an OC if you get artifacting like that across the board.

You're pretty much stuck. Give him some mega-negative heat and head to your local retailer...

 

[HumblePie]

Same thing has happened with a Siluro ti4200 I bought for my friend as a refurb from Newegg. The worst part is it worked fine for about a month. Then all sortsa of crap started happening. As of now, it's fried. Not sure what the hell happened. The card refuses to work in any system I've tried it in. The computer he has is an inexpensive system I put together for him but used quality parts...

Asus a7n8x-x
AMD XP 1700+ not overclocked
fortron 350w PSU
80 GB WD hard drive
lite-on 4x dvd/cd burner
Newegg aspire turbo case
SLK-900 heatsink and panaflo 80mm fan.

I originally gave him an old radeon 7000 card I had lying around and that worked fine but he couldn't do any games at all.

So I got him the 4200 from newegg.. It fried like yours. Since went back to the 700 which still works fine in his machine.

If you can, I would try to get your cash back from the ebay seller. It was a dud. Wish I could have done the same but newegg only has a 15 return policy on refurbs. After that, your SOL. Good luck on getting your money back or a replacement. I've not had great experiences with ebay sellers.. In fact, I stay as far away from ebay as I possibly can when it comes to eletrical components.