My Earlier GF3Ti 200 Strangeness

I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is getting even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's - and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne before i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot. a little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly XP boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've disabled all but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp, and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back with no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the card at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do you lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should have a 300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo, try the 4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's - and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne before i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot. a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly XP boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've disabled all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp, and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back with no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the card at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do you lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should have a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo, try the 4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's - and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne before i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot. a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly XP boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've disabled all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp, and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the card at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do you lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

Yeah, it could be the power supply but I expect spontaneous reboots. Is the
card overheating? How is your case ventilation? Clogged with dust? Is the
fan on the card still spinning?

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should have a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo, try the
4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is
getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's - and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne before
i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot. a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly XP
boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've disabled
all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp, and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the card
at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do you
lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

The cards fan is indeed still spinning - but it doesnt reboot - it'll
freeze, and bluescreen in XP, with this error:

GR SW Notify Error on 0000 88011000 0000004a 00000180 00001c20 00000002

Thats all that appears in the event viewer - but the bluescreen shows that
nv4_disp got stuck in an infinite loop.

The case is dust free and the card is cool to the touch - doesnt even feel
warm.

This is most bizarre - because as i stated earlier - i was playing Unreal II
on thursday last week perfectly fine - and on friday - all this started for
NO reason.

Kai

"DaveL" wrote in message
...
Yeah, it could be the power supply but I expect spontaneous reboots. Is
the
card overheating? How is your case ventilation? Clogged with dust? Is
the
fan on the card still spinning?

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should have
a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo, try the
4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is
getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's -
and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne
before
i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot. a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly XP
boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've disabled
all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp,
and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back
with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the
card
at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do you
lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

Have you had other drivers on there if so maybe you have a driver clash go
here and install this program then uninstall the old driversthen reboot,
then run the nasty file remover a few times , then reinstall the 44.03
drivers and see if that helps..you can get it here
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-28.shtml and here
http://www.overclockersclub.com/newscomment.php?
hope this works for you as it did for me..!

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
The cards fan is indeed still spinning - but it doesnt reboot - it'll
freeze, and bluescreen in XP, with this error:

GR SW Notify Error on 0000 88011000 0000004a 00000180 00001c20 00000002

Thats all that appears in the event viewer - but the bluescreen shows that
nv4_disp got stuck in an infinite loop.

The case is dust free and the card is cool to the touch - doesnt even feel
warm.

This is most bizarre - because as i stated earlier - i was playing Unreal
II
on thursday last week perfectly fine - and on friday - all this started
for
NO reason.

Kai

"DaveL" wrote in message
...
Yeah, it could be the power supply but I expect spontaneous reboots. Is
the
card overheating? How is your case ventilation? Clogged with dust? Is
the
fan on the card still spinning?

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should
have
a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo, try
the
4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is
getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's -
and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne
before
i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot.
a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly
XP
boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've
disabled
all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp,
and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back
with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the
card
at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do
you
lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

Its not the drivers problem - and no, no other version was installed - this
is after a CLEAN install of XP Pro - its got to be the hardware in some
fashion - the only thing is figuring out whether its merely a power supply
problem - or something more dire.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Have you had other drivers on there if so maybe you have a driver clash go
here and install this program then uninstall the old driversthen reboot,
then run the nasty file remover a few times , then reinstall the 44.03
drivers and see if that helps..you can get it here
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-28.shtml and here
http://www.overclockersclub.com/newscomment.php?
hope this works for you as it did for me..!

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
The cards fan is indeed still spinning - but it doesnt reboot - it'll
freeze, and bluescreen in XP, with this error:

GR SW Notify Error on 0000 88011000 0000004a 00000180 00001c20 00000002

Thats all that appears in the event viewer - but the bluescreen shows
that
nv4_disp got stuck in an infinite loop.

The case is dust free and the card is cool to the touch - doesnt even
feel
warm.

This is most bizarre - because as i stated earlier - i was playing
Unreal
II
on thursday last week perfectly fine - and on friday - all this started
for
NO reason.

Kai

"DaveL" wrote in message
...
Yeah, it could be the power supply but I expect spontaneous reboots.
Is
the
card overheating? How is your case ventilation? Clogged with dust?
Is
the
fan on the card still spinning?

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should
have
a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo, try
the
4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is
getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the
41.09's -
and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne
before
i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i
reboot.
a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it
was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly
XP
boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've
disabled
all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display
cp,
and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play
back
with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the
card
at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do
you
lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

Too small of a power supply definitely. Older video card also for newer
game.

--
DaveW



"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This is getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the 41.09's - and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max Payne before i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i reboot. a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it was before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the scrolly XP boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've disabled all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display cp, and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play back with no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with the card at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what do you lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu - the ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

It's definately not drivers because you said you had corruption even in the
bios screen.

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
Its not the drivers problem - and no, no other version was installed -
this
is after a CLEAN install of XP Pro - its got to be the hardware in some
fashion - the only thing is figuring out whether its merely a power supply
problem - or something more dire.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Have you had other drivers on there if so maybe you have a driver clash
go
here and install this program then uninstall the old driversthen reboot,
then run the nasty file remover a few times , then reinstall the 44.03
drivers and see if that helps..you can get it here
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-28.shtml and here
http://www.overclockersclub.com/newscomment.php?
hope this works for you as it did for me..!

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
The cards fan is indeed still spinning - but it doesnt reboot - it'll
freeze, and bluescreen in XP, with this error:

GR SW Notify Error on 0000 88011000 0000004a 00000180 00001c20
00000002

Thats all that appears in the event viewer - but the bluescreen shows
that
nv4_disp got stuck in an infinite loop.

The case is dust free and the card is cool to the touch - doesnt even
feel
warm.

This is most bizarre - because as i stated earlier - i was playing
Unreal
II
on thursday last week perfectly fine - and on friday - all this
started
for
NO reason.

Kai

"DaveL" wrote in message
...
Yeah, it could be the power supply but I expect spontaneous reboots.
Is
the
card overheating? How is your case ventilation? Clogged with dust?
Is
the
fan on the card still spinning?

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you should
have
a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo,
try
the
4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This
is
getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the
41.09's -
and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max
Payne
before
i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i
reboot.
a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as it
was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the
scrolly
XP
boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've
disabled
all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the display
cp,
and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play
back
with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with
the
card
at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness - what
do
you
lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu -
the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai

Have you checked if you are sharing irqs this could be a problem..

"DaveL" wrote in message
...
It's definately not drivers because you said you had corruption even in
the
bios screen.

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
Its not the drivers problem - and no, no other version was installed -
this
is after a CLEAN install of XP Pro - its got to be the hardware in some
fashion - the only thing is figuring out whether its merely a power
supply
problem - or something more dire.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Have you had other drivers on there if so maybe you have a driver
clash
go
here and install this program then uninstall the old driversthen
reboot,
then run the nasty file remover a few times , then reinstall the 44.03
drivers and see if that helps..you can get it here
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-28.shtml and here
http://www.overclockersclub.com/newscomment.php?
hope this works for you as it did for me..!

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
The cards fan is indeed still spinning - but it doesnt reboot -
it'll
freeze, and bluescreen in XP, with this error:

GR SW Notify Error on 0000 88011000 0000004a 00000180 00001c20
00000002

Thats all that appears in the event viewer - but the bluescreen
shows
that
nv4_disp got stuck in an infinite loop.

The case is dust free and the card is cool to the touch - doesnt
even
feel
warm.

This is most bizarre - because as i stated earlier - i was playing
Unreal
II
on thursday last week perfectly fine - and on friday - all this
started
for
NO reason.

Kai

"DaveL" wrote in message
...
Yeah, it could be the power supply but I expect spontaneous
reboots.
Is
the
card overheating? How is your case ventilation? Clogged with
dust?
Is
the
fan on the card still spinning?

Dave


"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
System Specs are as follows:

Athlon XP1600+
256mb Kingston PC2700 CAS2.5
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (no-raid)
40gb Maxtor ATA/133 7200rpm Hard Disk
Philips PCRW1610 CDRW Drive
Samsung SC-152L 52x CDROM
BT Speedway PCI ISDN T/A
3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC
Diamond Supramax 56i PCI 56k Modem

Thats about it - unless you count the floppy drive.


"Apoo" wrote in message
...
Not much to go on there! what system have you got and you
should
have
a
300
watt with geforce cards anyway if you have over a 2 gig mobo,
try
the
4403
drivers as well...

"Kai Robinson" wrote in message
...
I swear i'm living in the twilight zone with this card. This
is
getting
even
more bizarre. I've re-installed Windows XP Pro, and the
41.09's -
and
wierdly enough - i managed to play a whole 20 mins of Max
Payne
before
i
started seeing the strange blue mist and artefaction. So i
reboot.
a
little
corruption on the BIOS screen - but nowhere near as bad as
it
was
before.
Boots into windows fine. no artefaction - no snow on the
scrolly
XP
boot
screen like before, but it still borks under 3d games. I've
disabled
all
but
basic hardware acceleration in the advanced tab in the
display
cp,
and
everythings running stable as can be, even my DIVX will play
back
with
no
problems.

I'm starting to think that this isnt actually a problem with
the
card
at
all - and more to do with the PSU and its 250wattyness -
what
do
you
lot
think?

Theres plenty of good contact between the heatsink and gpu -
the
ramsinks
are all in place, and yes, theres new thermal goo.

Cheers

Kai