Could be a case PSU going bad - Could even be the mobo.
what is your PSU ? Needs to be a decent 300w like an Antec
or a 400w if its a cheapy generic to run that hardware. Check the capacitors
on the mobo - are any of them domed ? They're the green
cylindrical towers sticking up from the mobo about 2cm tall. They should
have flat ends but if they're bulging then that's bad.

"Gaffer" wrote in message
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I've recently started getting texture problems with games (ones that
have
good graphics and are more demanding) and I have no idea why. I used to
be
able to play "GTA Vice City" with my graphics card (Geforce4 ti4200 8x)
with
absolutely no problems with texture or anything else. But now I have
notice
quite a lot of texture problems in the game which make it very annoying.
There is no problem with the speed of games at all, it runs as fast as
ever.

I have noticed these texture problems with other games too, not just
Vice
City. I have noticed that the texture problems are somewhat worse with
the
newer drivers (53.04 & 56.64) and not as bad with some of the older ones
(41.09 & 44.03) and I have now tried around six different drivers for
Vice
City but still I get the problems. When I tried each driver I always
deleted
the previous from my PC using "add/remove programs" and used Driver
Cleaner
to get rid of any other files to do with Nvidia and install the next one
to
try. For the life of me I cannot remember what driver I was using (to
previously play Vice City) before I got these problems but I'm pretty
sure
I've tried it because I have experimented with a good few of them now
trying
to solve this problem.

Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I
restart
my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on.
The
PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to
press
the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this
because
my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just
switch
on my computer when it's off.

System Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2700mhz
512 DDR Ram 333
AT7-MAX2 motherboard
120GB SATA Cache 8m
Geforce 4 ti4200 8x





One more thing. My bios started acting rather strangely a while ago
(changin
g things unexpected) and was wondering if there is something in there that
could be affecting my graphics card's performance?

_____
Gaffer