major video problems

jonah255

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im having serious graphic problems. the symptoms vary in severity and occurance from boot to boot. sometimes the bios boot screen is discolored. the windows xp boot screen is even worse. there are flashing characters all over the place and it is discolored. in windows there is always some trash following the cursor. place like the start menu are disorted with big black lines across it. some icons are either blacked out or just missing. this all started when i put together my new system. here are the specs:

Epox 8k3a+
athlon 1900 xp
gainward geforce 4 4400
antec true 430 watt power supply
2x256mb samsung pc2700

im cooling the athlon with a Thermaltake 6cu and arctic silver 3. according to the bios it idles around 46C. i flashed updated the geforce and motherboard bioses to the latest version. Im running the NVIDIA detonator 23.82's. i have other cards but the problem persists even with out any other cards. ive tried numerous things in bios to no avail.

last night i was running this:
asus cusl2
p3 850
gainward geforce 4 4400
antec 400 watt power supply
256mb pc133
detonator 23.82

it worked perfectly fine.

did i fry something???

-jonah
 

jonah255

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it seems it will run stable with only one stick of ram. well, longer that is. i ran 3dmark 2001 using both sticks, one at a time. it doesnt make it through the entire benchmark. it starts out fine, eventually the video goes crazy. doesnt crash though.

-jonah
 

IQJUMPuw

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Ok, I know exactly what the problem is.

If you go to graphic/video card section, Gainward GF4 Ti4400 and Ti4600's have had BUNCH of defects. You should contact Gainward or the place where you bought it from ASAP. The RAM on your video card is bad. Heat problem... It's really weird since Gainward Ti series are guaranteed to overclock well so you would think that they will pick the best RAMs, but they didn't... :-/ They should've used Samsung RAMs like other GF4 menufacturers... If you contact them, they will ask you to RMA the card and they will replace the RAM on your card.

Do it right away before it gets worse.