Problem with ti4600
 

I'm having an odd problem with my system that likely is related to my video
card. before I get into it, here are the sys specs:

Win2K SP 2
Asus GeForce 4 TI 4600
Asus P4t-533-c
Pentium 4 2533 (Northwood B)
1 GB of memory (ordered pc1066, but it will only run stabilly at pc 800)

anyways, today as I was installing GTA Vice City, I noticed that there were
tiny (1-10 pixel) distortions on the screen. also, when I moved a window
over them, they disapeared. when I went to play GTA, lots of textures were
messed up making it almost imposible to play. It should be noted that I
noted the distortions BEFORE I actually started intalling GTA. The most
annoying problem is that 3dsmax will not run DirectX properly.

I have already tried booting into safe mode, reinstalling the drivers and
reinstalling direct X but nothing so far has worked.

Thanks for any help.

Jacob

It could be overheating.



"bocaJ" wrote in message
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I'm having an odd problem with my system that likely is related to my video
card. before I get into it, here are the sys specs:

Win2K SP 2
Asus GeForce 4 TI 4600
Asus P4t-533-c
Pentium 4 2533 (Northwood B)
1 GB of memory (ordered pc1066, but it will only run stabilly at pc 800)

anyways, today as I was installing GTA Vice City, I noticed that there were
tiny (1-10 pixel) distortions on the screen. also, when I moved a window
over them, they disapeared. when I went to play GTA, lots of textures were
messed up making it almost imposible to play. It should be noted that I
noted the distortions BEFORE I actually started intalling GTA. The most
annoying problem is that 3dsmax will not run DirectX properly.

I have already tried booting into safe mode, reinstalling the drivers and
reinstalling direct X but nothing so far has worked.

Thanks for any help.

Jacob

then:
What is the proper temp?
how can I check the temp?
"gemron" wrote in
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It could be overheating.



"bocaJ" wrote in message
...
I'm having an odd problem with my system that likely is related to my
video card. before I get into it, here are the sys specs:

Win2K SP 2
Asus GeForce 4 TI 4600
Asus P4t-533-c
Pentium 4 2533 (Northwood B)
1 GB of memory (ordered pc1066, but it will only run stabilly at pc
800)

anyways, today as I was installing GTA Vice City, I noticed that there
were tiny (1-10 pixel) distortions on the screen. also, when I moved a
window over them, they disapeared. when I went to play GTA, lots of
textures were messed up making it almost imposible to play. It should
be noted that I noted the distortions BEFORE I actually started
intalling GTA. The most annoying problem is that 3dsmax will not run
DirectX properly.

I have already tried booting into safe mode, reinstalling the drivers
and reinstalling direct X but nothing so far has worked.

Thanks for any help.

Jacob

Using Win98? I had that strange problem not quite sure what happened.
Sometimes right clicking the desktop and going to refresh helped, sometimes
not. But think about it. If it were a heat related problem do you think it
would just change the appearance of the icons? No. It would change
everything (at least everything graphically intensive). Try running a 3d
game next time it happens, and see if it runs correctly.

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Overheating or bad power supply. You want at least 350Watts for that.

Ron

"bocaJ" wrote in message
...
I'm having an odd problem with my system that likely is related to my
video
card. before I get into it, here are the sys specs:

Win2K SP 2
Asus GeForce 4 TI 4600
Asus P4t-533-c
Pentium 4 2533 (Northwood B)
1 GB of memory (ordered pc1066, but it will only run stabilly at pc 800)

anyways, today as I was installing GTA Vice City, I noticed that there
were
tiny (1-10 pixel) distortions on the screen. also, when I moved a window
over them, they disapeared. when I went to play GTA, lots of textures were
messed up making it almost imposible to play. It should be noted that I
noted the distortions BEFORE I actually started intalling GTA. The most
annoying problem is that 3dsmax will not run DirectX properly.

I have already tried booting into safe mode, reinstalling the drivers and
reinstalling direct X but nothing so far has worked.

Thanks for any help.

Jacob