why are onboard video so unreliable?

[wchou]

mine died after 2months of use, i now have to put in a slow pci card.

 

[grooge]

Was it OCed?

 

[Steve]

Did it have its own RAM or did it use system RAM? If it was system RAM, you might want to run memtest.

 

[RobsTV]

Years of building HTPC's with onboard video, dozens of systems, and never any onboard video failure. Most were nvidia based NF1 and NF2 boards. Now using ATi based RS480/482 with onboard xpress 200 video (equals ATi x300). Perfect...

 

[wchou]

It is a DFI mobo with VIA chipset. ATA100, duron 1600, 512mb of ram 256mb x 2. windows keep saying unable to load drivers, device conflict problems or problem with device. It is a savage pro video chipset, 8/16/32 mb of selectable video ram.
Integrated ProSavage8(TM) 2D/3D/Video accelerator
- Shares 8MB to 32MB of the system memory
- Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA)
- Full AGP 4x, including sideband addressing and execute mode
- High quality DVD video playback
Supports 3D rendering features
Supports 2D hardware acceleration features
Motion video architecture

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product...ODUCT_ID=1298&CATEGORY_TYPE=MB&SITE=US

 

[Steve]

Integrated video with shared RAM. I would go to memtest.org, download memtest86+ v1.65, and let it run a full pass (all nine tests).