Hey. Some weird problems:
My Winfast Geforce4 Ti4200 8xAGP's BIOS screen is garbled and has random characters over most of it now. This has gotten increasingly bad.
The first main BIOS page is fine (showing the CPU speed, etc.)
Then the next screen has random characters thrown in in vertical lines, very weird.
Normal windows performance is fine.
My games, which I have installed on a secondary hard drive, got increasingly corrupted. Call of Duty started crashing at the same spot, and Tiger Woods got more and more crashes and graphical glitches (random inclined planes of a tree texture of something like 200+ yards long, but they were not recognized by the physics engine or anything). I wasn't sure if this was the HD corrupting the data (since it got progressively worse over a few weeks). So I uninstalled all my games and re-zeroed the HD a few times and checked it for errors. (there were none, but I've gotten that message in the past when there have been problems). I installed MVP Baseball 2004 and have been playing that exclusively lately. I get a lot of white dots and flashes around the players (not sure if this is game specific or a known bug), but otherwise it's been fine for about a week now. Suddenly yesterday, a few graphical glitches started appearing (advertisements that extend out onto the field, etc.) Then, the game suddenly freezes as the batter's helmet disappears.
I haven't tried things on the other HD yet (this is a bit of a long process), but this is understandably getting annoying. I'm not OCing my GPU, and it's only 2 months old. Think it's going bad already? I'm hesitant to attempt any kind of RMA with Winfast--look at their website--you click on tech support and nothing happens, they're hard to contact, etc. I'll update.
Thanks for the help.
My Winfast Geforce4 Ti4200 8xAGP's BIOS screen is garbled and has random characters over most of it now. This has gotten increasingly bad.
The first main BIOS page is fine (showing the CPU speed, etc.)
Then the next screen has random characters thrown in in vertical lines, very weird.
Normal windows performance is fine.
My games, which I have installed on a secondary hard drive, got increasingly corrupted. Call of Duty started crashing at the same spot, and Tiger Woods got more and more crashes and graphical glitches (random inclined planes of a tree texture of something like 200+ yards long, but they were not recognized by the physics engine or anything). I wasn't sure if this was the HD corrupting the data (since it got progressively worse over a few weeks). So I uninstalled all my games and re-zeroed the HD a few times and checked it for errors. (there were none, but I've gotten that message in the past when there have been problems). I installed MVP Baseball 2004 and have been playing that exclusively lately. I get a lot of white dots and flashes around the players (not sure if this is game specific or a known bug), but otherwise it's been fine for about a week now. Suddenly yesterday, a few graphical glitches started appearing (advertisements that extend out onto the field, etc.) Then, the game suddenly freezes as the batter's helmet disappears.
I haven't tried things on the other HD yet (this is a bit of a long process), but this is understandably getting annoying. I'm not OCing my GPU, and it's only 2 months old. Think it's going bad already? I'm hesitant to attempt any kind of RMA with Winfast--look at their website--you click on tech support and nothing happens, they're hard to contact, etc. I'll update.
Thanks for the help.
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