ti4200 givin' me problems

hakim · 17-February-04, 11:58 PM

my friend had this ti4200 dual monitor vid card for a year. then it stopped working properly; whenever he'd try to open up a game, any game or application with graphics, the card would freeze the computer; after about 10 seconds of the screen's image decomposing itself into squares or just fuzzing out pixel by pixel, the monitor would shut off and then computer restarts.

he gave it to me.

now i stuck it in an old system - 950mhz AMD Athlon Socket B with AGP4x slot, 512mb RAM, windows XP - does the same thing.
dxdiag's directDraw test runs fine until it tries to run with dx8 and dx9 hardware accelleration - it freezes on both of these, and sometimes the same thing as is described above happens. I can't run any of my games - not even CS1.6 Steam stays up for more than 30 seconds - not even counterstrike, just the Steam interface....

DirectDraw works fine according to DxDiag
i have the latest drivers as prescribed by windowsUpdate...

wuz goin' on?
~Hakim

neotheducky · 18-February-04, 12:00 AM

Is the fan working?

TYCOON · 18-February-04, 12:01 AM

I would make sure its not overheating, somehow (i dont understand this stuff) the BIOS is messed...try re-flashing it..thats my guess.

Edit: you got to it before me

hakim · 18-February-04, 01:00 AM

fan's spinning fine - do you mean the system bios or the video card bios?

the damn cube spins fine with Dx7 - and when i have the AGP Acceleration disabled, the friggin DX cube does OK on Dx8 - but freezes without fail on Dx9

if you mean to flash the vid card bios, does anybody have a clue how to do that?

~Hakim

Wyzard360 · 27-February-04, 10:45 PM

What brand is the card? The abit siluro ti4200 was pretty much an overall dud. I used one to build a computer for a friend and had to send it back in less than a month. Seems to be the case with most of the others, giving out within about 2 years.

17-February-04, 11:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
hakim Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 9	ti4200 givin' me problems my friend had this ti4200 dual monitor vid card for a year. then it stopped working properly; whenever he'd try to open up a game, any game or application with graphics, the card would freeze the computer; after about 10 seconds of the screen's image decomposing itself into squares or just fuzzing out pixel by pixel, the monitor would shut off and then computer restarts. he gave it to me. now i stuck it in an old system - 950mhz AMD Athlon Socket B with AGP4x slot, 512mb RAM, windows XP - does the same thing. dxdiag's directDraw test runs fine until it tries to run with dx8 and dx9 hardware accelleration - it freezes on both of these, and sometimes the same thing as is described above happens. I can't run any of my games - not even CS1.6 Steam stays up for more than 30 seconds - not even counterstrike, just the Steam interface.... DirectDraw works fine according to DxDiag i have the latest drivers as prescribed by windowsUpdate... wuz goin' on? ~Hakim

18-February-04, 12:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
TYCOON Apex Tech God Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: SCHOOLLLSSS Posts: 4,728	I would make sure its not overheating, somehow (i dont understand this stuff) the BIOS is messed...try re-flashing it..thats my guess. Edit: you got to it before me __________________ AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.7GHz DFI LanParty SLI-D 2GBs PC3200 @ PC3500 // 2.5-3-3-6 EVGA 7950GT 512MB @ Stock Audigy 2 ZS 36Gb Raptor (os) 2x300Gb WD SATA 16MB CACHE (storage) 450Watt OCZ modstream Coolermaster Wavemaster

18-February-04, 01:00 AM	#4 (permalink)
hakim Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 9	friggin ti42 fan's spinning fine - do you mean the system bios or the video card bios? the damn cube spins fine with Dx7 - and when i have the AGP Acceleration disabled, the friggin DX cube does OK on Dx8 - but freezes without fail on Dx9 if you mean to flash the vid card bios, does anybody have a clue how to do that? ~Hakim

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neotheducky Rubber Duck-Hoe Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: St. Louis Posts: 1,557	Is the fan working?

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Wyzard360 Apex Techie Lite Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 25	What brand is the card? The abit siluro ti4200 was pretty much an overall dud. I used one to build a computer for a friend and had to send it back in less than a month. Seems to be the case with most of the others, giving out within about 2 years.