Ooh - long and strange tale. Before Christmas - my cat decided to have a
piss in my computer case - as it had no sides (lost them in germany).
Pronounced dead (produced wierd artefacts). Resurrected that time by arduous
cleaning with warm soapy water and drying on a very hot radiator wrapped in
a towel. Second time around, for some unknown reason, it stopped working
completely - locking up in 2d mode - and producing artefacts in 3d games
when it ran for the 1-2 secs it wanted to. Always failed with an error in
nv4_disp.dll. Tried new thermal paste - reseating heatsinks & ramsinks - no
go. tried flashing the BIOS again. no go again. tried new drivers - again,
no go.
So, the other night - courtesy of chris, i tried testvram.com in DOS, after
doing an erase THEN flash of the BIOS. testvram reported all was fine upto
533Mhz memory but no further. As these are 5ns chips - rated 400Mhz - that
wasnt bad. At least i ruled out the memory being the cause. So i tried
loading the 52.16's in a last ditch attempt. installation completed but
locked up at the end. reboot. IT WORKED! it stayed stable in 2d mode for an
hour and no artefacts (which can be seen at
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://kai.robinson.free.fr/retarded.jpg" target="_blank">http://kai.robinson.free.fr/retarded.jpg</a> ).
I tried max payne first. no blue artefacts, and it seemed to work fine. Then
tried Quake III - that worked fine too. Then finally gave it some punishing
in Unreal II (the Hell mission - and yes, it scared my pants off and down
the drive). Worked fine. Tried overclocking - again - worked fine, and was
even stable at 250/500 for an hour running 3dmark2001se in loops. That was
with the CPU cranked upto 1.8v, the FSB changed in BIOS to 150Mhz, and upped
to 153Mhz by using Fuzzy Logic 4 (it wont even post higher than 150),
Kingston memory at 300Mhz CAS2 (its rated CAS 2.5 @ 333Mhz).
Its still working - and i've just completed Unreal II again.
And - just placed a bid on ebay for 256mb more matching Kingston
KTC-D320/256 at £20 each, and placed a £64 on a Gainward Ultra/750XP Golden
Sample. For those that dont speak marketing - thats a GeForce 4 Ti4800SE.
Comes with a Firewire card too. and its even boxed. Should be fun. All the
reviewers managed to get it to run 350/650
So anyway - thats my long, boring and ultimately pointless story
Kai
"DaveL" <dave1027.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:x_Odndrqp9gd67Td4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> That's a great score for a ti200. Tell us the story of what happen to the
> card and how you brought it back to life. BTW, I would hold off on a new
> card until the game (D3) actually is out for sale. The NV40 is due to be
> out before then.
>
> Dave
>
>
> "Kai Robinson" <kai_robinsonspam.DeleteThis@tiscali.fr> wrote in message
> news:402931d9$0$28627$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
> > Okay - my GeForce 3 has been proclaimed dead (officially) twice, both by
> > mine and your lots accounts. However, it came back to life in zombie
form
> > the other day after trying one last time with testnvram.com - and has
been
> > working fine ever since. Apart from being exceedingly wierd, its also
> meant
> > that the money i accrued for buying a new gfx card, is still accruing,
> > rather than sitting in some evil ebayers paypal account.
> >
> > Take a look at these 3dMark2001se scores and tell me if thats good:
> >
<font color=green> > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7544597</font" target="_blank">http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7544597</font</a>>
> >
> > For those of you that dont want to know the details - i got a score of
> 8158
> > with the 44.03's, Athlon XP 1600+ Clocked to 153Mhz FSB @ 1.8v, 256mb
> > Kingston KTC-D320 PC2700 DDR on an MSI KT3 Ultra2 (not the ARU).
> >
> > Recommendations for a new system component are welcome ;D
> >
> > Kai
> >
> >
> >
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