hardware problems.. but which...
| General Hardware Forum Discuss, hardware problems.. but which... at Computer Hardware forum; I've got some kind of hardware problem i just cant identify, and thought maybe someone here could gimme some ideas... about 5-6 months ago everything was fine, but then "something" happened... i can no longer run anything that uses OpenGL... and i DO mean anything... the pc will hang, crash |
| I've got some kind of hardware problem i just cant identify, and thought maybe someone here could gimme some ideas... about 5-6 months ago everything was fine, but then "something" happened... i can no longer run anything that uses OpenGL... and i DO mean anything... the pc will hang, crash and randomly reboot if i try... i have recently purchased a new mobo and kinda hoped that would maybe, just maybe solve the problem since the old one did have some serious problems... my system specs are... AMD XP2100+ (palomino) Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 mobo 256 MB Samsung 400 Mhz DDR SB Live 5.1 GeForce 4 TI4200 128MB DDR AGP8 40 GB seagate HDD Liteon DVD-Rom NEC ND1300-A DVD-R Win XP Pro + SP1 all drivers are currently the latest certified versions... now what i've already tried is doing a clean format and reinstall of everything... didn't work... i've tried everything with the graphics drivers... nothing works... but then for the GeForce card i cant say its the best brand... i would call it the cheapest crap money can buy... its a Palit Daytona card... but i've used those several times before wihtout having any kind of trouble... hmmm one thins just occured to me... this problem started around the time i upgraded to AGP8... could that be the problem ?? Regards McDanish |
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| sounds like you eliminated the MB, OS and drivers, so that just leaves the card itself. It may have some bad RAM or some other issue. Have you updated to DirectX 9.0b ? |
| just checked with dxdiag to be certain... yes its 9.0b |
| nForce chipsets are picky with their memory banks. Check your modules with MemTest What kind of vga drivers are you runnig ? Which detonator numbers ?
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| I shouldn''t worry too much about your GF4 being a problem because it was a cheap one. Most of these cheap GF4 cards are built upon the NVidia reference design and therefor good cards, for less money...
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