PNY GeForce4 Ti 4400 Problem... please help! :(

[Logan8252]

Hi. I got this card yesterday and didn't have any problems with it. Did a lot of benchmarking, playing games, etc. and it was doing fine.

Come this morning, now it randomly just stops showing video. Let me explain.

I was just browsing some webpages and then *bam* my screen goes blank. Computer still seems like it's on, everything is still powered up etc.

I hit the restart button and it restarts, but no signal goes to the monitor. So I have to hold down the power button till it shuts off then boot up and then it will boot up fine. But then again after a few minutes of being on the whole process starts over.

Nothing like this ever happened when I had a GF3 Ti 200 in. So I believe one of two things to be the culprit; the power supply or the card itself. Here are the specs:

EPoX 4BDA
P4 1.6A @ 2.4GHz
1x 512MB Samsung PC2700 @ PC3200
PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti 4400 @ 4600 (only OC when playing games)
SoundBlaster Live! Audigy Gamer
Linksys LNE100TX v5 10/100 NIC
Temporary IBM 13GB ATA66 7200RPM (Western Digital 100GB Special Edition is currently being RMA'd)
Toshiba 16x DVD
Lite On 32x12x40 CDRW

And the power supply is a Antec True Power 330w. Has anyone had similar problems? Would the jump from a GF3 Ti 200 to a GF4 Ti 4400 be enough to push the PSU over the limit? Can someone say for sure if it is the card or PSU? Thanks for any input.

 

[Pocatello]

Did you check if your card was inserted properly into the AGP slot or your VGA connection to the videocard? I've heard a few GF4 failures in this forums, from Gainward GF 4 owners, something to do with bad memory on the videocards?

 

[Logan8252]

Yeah it's installed properly. I played Morrowind on it last night for a couple of hours.

 

[Logan8252]

For those who care I figured out the problem... it wasn't the video card or power supply... I guess the RAM wasn't as stable at PC3200 as I thought. Never had that sort of stuff happening because of RAM... but I backed it down a few MHz and no more problems Weird that it would take about a week of running at that speed for the problem to surface