Geforce 4 Ti 4800 problem...I think

meekrobmeekrob
edited September 2004 in Hardware
So I bought a Geforce 4 Ti 4800 SE 8x back in January, and from day 1 it had a texturing error, where it scrambled textures. I finally got around to sending it back for maintenance about a week ago and Chaintech (the manufacturer) returned it to me a few days ago. I also just bought a 200gb hard-drive and 512mb of RAM. So I put everything in and now I have a new problem - whenever I watch a movie of any sort, it restarts. It's not always instant, I can get through half a movie sometimes, but it most always ends in restarting. I am guessing this is a videocard glitch, but could it be my new RAM? The restarts seem to come quicker the more stuff that is happening (i.e.: I was burning a CD, copying files to my new hard-drive, watching a movie and running some torrents, and it restarted in about 2 minutes). Also I recently installed the K-Lite Mega codec pack...could it be that? I do have the newest drivers from Nvidia. Any suggestions from you guys would be great, I would feel weird JUST getting my card back and then having to send it back immediately. Thanks.

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  • SSR_06SSR_06 Iowa
    edited August 2004
    its a chaintech... don't expect too much. i had a chaintech mboard and the ps2 ports and bios went bad. this happened 2 months after the 1 year warranty was up. but they still worked on it for free. my opionon BURN ALL CHAINTECHS!!!!
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    i had that with a 4600 it was scrambledx right outta the box. Sent it back and got a 9500 pro. Man if u can rma it do it!
  • meekrobmeekrob
    edited September 2004
    Update: So I borrowed a friend's GeForce Fx 5900 (Gainward) and stuck it in there instead of the GeForce 4 Ti 4800 SE 8x. I started my computer and tried to induce the restard - I watched a movie while listening to music, running 3 virus scans, burning a CD, installing Photoshop, running eMule, soulseek and a bittorrent client, and nothing happened. So, determined my problem was the 4800 I turned on some music and started playing Counter-Strike. Within 5 minutes my computer restarted! I tried the CS again w/o music and it restarted, then in the middle of booting up, it restarted again! WTF! Could this be a cooling problem? I stuck a 512 stick of RAM in recently as well, could I have bought the wrong kind (it is DDRRAM 512MB PC-2700 ACI DDR 333%)? Got a 200 gig harddrive recently as well, but I doubt it's that. I have an Asus A7V333 mobo with a 1.5ghz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, so those are getting pretty old...maybe it is one of them? Please guys, I really need your help.
  • thesittingduck2thesittingduck2
    edited September 2004
    You have way to many variables. start by eliminating components (hardware/software) by stripping the rigg down as far as you can go and still have a runing machine.
    Then start by adding 1 component at a time.
    There are several possiblities but unless you start dealing with this systimatically you will never know

    just my 2 cesnts worth...
  • meekrobmeekrob
    edited September 2004
    Lol ok, I also forgot to mention a pretty crappy power supply...I need to upgrade this comp but I don't have the money! Anyway I will try stripping it down, but one interesting thing is how many more restarts I got from the FX 5700.
  • airoh69airoh69
    edited September 2004
    Maybe the psu cannot handle all the hardware that you have on the computer. Try using a bigger psu or removing any extra fans/cd-roms you may have on the pc to see if it still restarts. Oh.. have you tried formating and doing a clean install of windows??? It can also be a glitch in a software you use. I had this problem once.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2004
    You've got the right ram for that mobo. It sounds like your PSU may be failing. But first things first disk scan and defrag.

    The 5700 is drawing more power then the Chaintech so if it is your PSU that would explain the reboots.
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