I'm having weird issues with my video card and I'm wondering if the card is dying.
Basically what it's doing is; I'll be sitting here using the PC (surfing, using word, anything) and suddenly without warning I'll get a solid white screen with small red "bowtie" shaped blocks. The machine is completely locked at this point. Doing a hard reboot fixes the problem...until it does it again. Sometimes it'll just be a solid white screen.
The video card is about 8 months old. It's a Chaintech GT21 Geforce ti4200 128mb. It was working fine until..oh..3 months ago. I had installed Splinter Cell and smack midgame this problem started happening, but ONLY when I played splinter cell. This was the 1st instance of it messing up. Now it has started doing it at other times.
I was using the latest detonator drivers, and have downgraded to 4345 drivers. I tried this once before when it happened during Splinter Cell gameplay, but that did not fix it.
So could it be a driver issue .. or is the card falling apart?
System Specs:
Dual AMD 1.2
Tyan 4622-4N mobo
512MB registered DDR
Basically what it's doing is; I'll be sitting here using the PC (surfing, using word, anything) and suddenly without warning I'll get a solid white screen with small red "bowtie" shaped blocks. The machine is completely locked at this point. Doing a hard reboot fixes the problem...until it does it again. Sometimes it'll just be a solid white screen.
The video card is about 8 months old. It's a Chaintech GT21 Geforce ti4200 128mb. It was working fine until..oh..3 months ago. I had installed Splinter Cell and smack midgame this problem started happening, but ONLY when I played splinter cell. This was the 1st instance of it messing up. Now it has started doing it at other times.
I was using the latest detonator drivers, and have downgraded to 4345 drivers. I tried this once before when it happened during Splinter Cell gameplay, but that did not fix it.
So could it be a driver issue .. or is the card falling apart?
System Specs:
Dual AMD 1.2
Tyan 4622-4N mobo
512MB registered DDR
