Geforce4 TI-4200 problems

External Since: Oct 25, 2003 Posts: 2

In June I installed an Asus V9280TD card to replace a PNY card that had
a bad capacitor. As of last week, I've started noticing that text in
Explorer,
sometimes menu bars, desktop icon text etc, appears similar to a page
printed when low on ink. Sometimes a part of a character is missing here and
there etc. If I highlight the text, I can see the full characters in
reverse (usually, although sometimes that same missing text may appear
yellow.Another strange thing I noticed today is that sometimes if I drag a
square selection on the desktop and release it, there may be "residual"
pixels remaining from the selection.. almost as if it wasn't being refreshed
properly. I cleared out the oldest drivers and installed the latest
reference drivers, but that didn't make a difference. Anybody have an idea
what these symptoms are caused by?Might this be a system ram issue? I
restarted the computer today and there
was some rectangular red shapes on the post screen. The little box that
displays the progress just before desktop, "Preparing Network Connections"
etc, just had a thin strip visible. Instead of the usual blue background, it
was just black with only my mouse cursor visible. Finally reached desktop.

I open IE. The screen would flash on and off after trying to load Googles'
page. Literally, like the monitor lost signal for a split second. It would
sort of load partially, then freeze up for about 10 seconds, *flash*, a
little more loads but then it's frozen. Monitor lost signal for around 5
seconds.System was able to start up ok *after* I powered down and let it sit
for about 5minutes before boot. Sometimes, along with the text issues, there
will be a fewnarrow, vertical, dashed pinstripes visible when looking
websites. Sometimes scrollingthe page up or down will clear these visual
artifacts, tho it's just as likely thatwill also create some new "stray
pixels".

I'm not sure what the problem is, but I don't have another computer to test
the card on. I'm hoping someone in this group might recognize one of
these symptoms. Case is open with plenty of fresh circulation around the
card.I apologize for the lengthy post, but thank you for your time. Any help
would begreatly appreciated.

External Since: Aug 24, 2003 Posts: 5

"Lee" <sartori_13 RemoveThis @hotmale.com> wrote in message
news:uUBmb.37268$RP2.19696@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> In June I installed an Asus V9280TD card to replace a PNY card that had
> a bad capacitor. As of last week, I've started noticing that text in
> Explorer,
> sometimes menu bars, desktop icon text etc, appears similar to a page
> printed when low on ink. Sometimes a part of a character is missing here
and
> there etc. If I highlight the text, I can see the full characters in
> reverse (usually, although sometimes that same missing text may appear
> yellow.Another strange thing I noticed today is that sometimes if I drag a
> square selection on the desktop and release it, there may be "residual"
> pixels remaining from the selection.. almost as if it wasn't being
refreshed
> properly. I cleared out the oldest drivers and installed the latest
> reference drivers, but that didn't make a difference. Anybody have an idea
> what these symptoms are caused by?Might this be a system ram issue? I
> restarted the computer today and there
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The last time this happened to me, I was running a Pentium 200 MMX, and the
L2 Cahce on the mainboard had failed... so good luck.

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