Well, over the past few days My wifes computer (my old parts put together after I upgrade) has had random lock ups. She don't use it very much so I never dug into the problem. Well, now it does it every 15 mins or so. I had no clue what cause this until the Wife bought a Tiger Woods golf game. We tried and tried to install it but it kept locking up. So I just formated reinstalled Win 98se ...of course I installed 4-in-1'a first..then Det's, sound, and last Directx 8.1.
This time it let her install the game and play it....but as I was walking by...I thought I seen some artifacts flash across her screen. So Iasked her about it... She said yeah wierd stuff fashes around here and there. She also said it does lockup but not as bad.
Just remeber this is a fresh install with no overclocking at. Even the bios and memory settings are set to defualt.
So this morning I tried to run 3dmark 2001 and OMG I never seen so much Artifacts in my life...You could not even make out half os the benchmark it was flashing that fast... After a few seconds the pc locks up.
Now this Video card was bought in July of last year and it ran perfectly in my pc until I upgraded to a GF4 . So this Ultra replaced a gf2 mx400 that was originaly in her pc.
I have also tried this Ultra in my computer ...but it is worse...I can't even make start 3dmark2001.. it just locks up
However, I placed the gf2mx back in her pc and things are fine. So I am sure it nothing else beside the Ultra card....
Anyone know if these are the symptons of a failing card?
Has anyone have the same problem (without oveclocking it) or might have a solution?
Anyone know how good Visionteks RMA department is?
Thanks guy
This time it let her install the game and play it....but as I was walking by...I thought I seen some artifacts flash across her screen. So Iasked her about it... She said yeah wierd stuff fashes around here and there. She also said it does lockup but not as bad.
Just remeber this is a fresh install with no overclocking at. Even the bios and memory settings are set to defualt.
So this morning I tried to run 3dmark 2001 and OMG I never seen so much Artifacts in my life...You could not even make out half os the benchmark it was flashing that fast... After a few seconds the pc locks up.
Now this Video card was bought in July of last year and it ran perfectly in my pc until I upgraded to a GF4 . So this Ultra replaced a gf2 mx400 that was originaly in her pc.
I have also tried this Ultra in my computer ...but it is worse...I can't even make start 3dmark2001.. it just locks up
However, I placed the gf2mx back in her pc and things are fine. So I am sure it nothing else beside the Ultra card....
Anyone know if these are the symptons of a failing card?
Has anyone have the same problem (without oveclocking it) or might have a solution?
Anyone know how good Visionteks RMA department is?
Thanks guy
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