screen distortion with ti4200

[Crellion101]

hey guys! i have a 2.8 p4 with a ti4200 128mb graphics card with the latest drivers and directx 9.0a using winxp home sp1. there were several games that i have that had all the same problems - mohaa, unreal 2, and splinter cell. the game plays fine for a few minutes, then all of a sudden the screen blurs and all these blocky color boxes come up and my computer freezes. it happens to all three games - does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Tetsuo]

is it a gainward?

 

[Crellion101]

yep! anything particular about it?

 

[apac]

wow I was honestly just about to post the same exact problem. I have the chaintech GF4 Ti4200 128mb.

It's been happening for about 6 months, or at least thats when I noticed it first. The screen flashes to a refreshing grid of multicolored blocks for about half a second then either goes white and freezes, or simply reboots my computer. It only happens on high resolution games like UT2003 and Splinter Cell, probably ones that use the T&L.

The funny thing is it's unpredicable. Sometimes I can play for 4 hours and nothing will happen, others it will just crash in 30 seconds. If I really want to make it die fast I can either start the UT2003 benchmark demo or 3dmark03 - it does it very quick on both (in the second demo level for UT).

Any advice for us both?

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: Crellion101
yep! anything particular about it?

you've prolly got one of the defective cards from one of gainward's bad batches, ill try and find a link about it, but id suggest just RMA'ing it

ahh, found it RIGHT HERE

edit: i guess i should add, i had one of these defective cards, i rma'd it and got a nice brand new one of equal speed

 

[apac]

Hmm.

Well that doesn't solve my problem since I have a Chaintech model. After searching for 10 minutes or so I can't find any other instances with my card, nor can I find somewhere to RMA it.

 

[Intelman07]

I had to RMA my Gainward ti4200. I RMA with newegg. That card is no longer made or sold at newegg so I think I am just going to get a refund am I right? They still sell a Gainward Ti4200 but its a 8x model.

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: Intelman07
I had to RMA my Gainward ti4200. I RMA with newegg. That card is no longer made or sold at newegg so I think I am just going to get a refund am I right? They still sell a Gainward Ti4200 but its a 8x model.

mine was a 4x ti4200, i rma'd it to gainward/cardexpert, and got the same model back, with the 8x agp as a bonus

 

[Intelman07]

Originally posted by: tetuyeda

Originally posted by: Intelman07
I had to RMA my Gainward ti4200. I RMA with newegg. That card is no longer made or sold at newegg so I think I am just going to get a refund am I right? They still sell a Gainward Ti4200 but its a 8x model.

mine was a 4x ti4200, i rma'd it to gainward/cardexpert, and got the same model back, with the 8x agp as a bonus

mmm bonus! Hopefully newegg will do that. (the newer model has faster ram and better heat sinks too!)