Author Topic: Video card bit the dust. (Read 400 times)

Swoop · « **on:** June 22, 2003, 06:35:42 AM »

After a month of fighting overheat problems today my NVIDEA GeForce 4600Ti 128Mb refuses to run anything other than windows without resetting the whole PC.....Aces High hung on a little longer than other stuff but this morning I can't even run that

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Buying a new card today if MediaMart is open, or tomorrow if it isn't.

What do you guys recommend?

The card will only be used for gaming, price isn't really an issue but I don't really want to buy a seriously expensive card that'll be half the price in 3 months.

Estes · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2003, 06:43:29 AM »

THis may not be the case, but I had that same problem happen awhile back and turned out it wasn't power, vid card or sound card, was my mobo dieing.

Swoop · « **Reply #2 on:** June 22, 2003, 08:22:40 AM »

After the reboot I get the WinXP message saying that:

NVIDEA GF4 may be responsible for the system instability.

Estes · « **Reply #3 on:** June 22, 2003, 08:35:52 AM »

That's what XP said on mine too, what the local guy here said was look at the capasitors (sp?) they are those cylinder looking things around the CPU, he said that if they have the putty looking stuff coming out of them then that might be the problem. Bought a new mobo slapped in it and no more problems.
Hope that helps if not other things that he told me to try was removing memory sticks and rebooting seeing if that helps but in my case it only covered up the problem which may be the same in your case.

Swoop · « **Reply #4 on:** June 22, 2003, 09:41:59 AM »

Could be, but I'm still gonna try the new VDU.

For the past month I've had MBM5 running. My CPU (AMD 2Ghz) runs at 32 degrees pretty much permanently.....and those things are renowned for running at a high temp, usually 50 ish. The GF4 runs at 75 degrees usually......after an hour of GTA:VC (if it hasn't crashed) it would be at 90 ish. With the case off, a fan pointed at it and just windows running it'll come down to about 60 ish.

Seems resonable to assume that a month running at 80 degrees is gonna kill the card.

Kisters · « **Reply #5 on:** June 22, 2003, 10:00:38 AM »

Swoop

Get a supper whopper 408 thermalpower fans jiggling special CPU containing box. (forgot english for it).

It shouldnt get that hot, the poor vid card is just a victim.

Also you might want to post and ask Skuzzy in hardware & software.

Swoop · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2003, 10:31:32 AM »

After yet further testing, seems I can run AH but not at 1600x1200. Anything else is fine.

Fishu · « **Reply #7 on:** June 22, 2003, 11:20:48 AM »

I wonder what kind of a cooling you have , if CPU is only 32 degrees, while neightboring card is anything between 60-90 degrees.

Whats the case temperature?

SunKing · « **Reply #8 on:** June 22, 2003, 03:21:43 PM »

ATI 9700pro, 9800