I just bought a used Geforce4 Ti 4200 on eBay, and since I installed it
yesterday I've experienced a number of problems. I'm not sure if the card or
if my PC is at fault. Here's what I've done so far:

- Removed all old video drivers (previous card was a Radeon 8500)
- Upgraded to DirectX 9.0b and ran the tests. During the first DirectDraw
test with the small white box inside a small black box, there was a pause
for about 30 seconds before it finished the test.... which it passed,
although not as quick as I think it should.
- Downloaded and installed latest geforce drivers from nvidia.com
- Ran 3DMark 2001, which crashed before it could finish. What I could see,
however, were some serious problems during the tests. In the "Lobby" test,
the guy had fingers that were stretched out like icicles... as well as other
objects in the scene. NOT GOOD. Around the tenth test or so (just after the
"alien") I got a "Device Failure" error and had to reboot.

During the boot sequence, the PC logo that appears in DOS has some black
spots that appear as garbled columns. I've also noticed that there are some
artifacts in the dos text seen during startup. When the Windows XP startup
image appears and the little progress animation starts, the 3 green icons
degrade in quality as they move from left to right.

I tried a few games (Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty demo), and there were
long loading delays, freeze/crashes, and jumpy gameplay if I managed to
start the game.

So.... should I get a refund? I don't know how to tell if there is an
incompatibilty with my system, BIOS, software, or if this card is defective.
Any ideas?

My system:
Pentium 3 900mhz "Blaster PC"
512 MB RAM
BFG Technologies Geforce4 Ti 4200 with 128MB, fan cooled and 8X agp
Windows XP Home
DirectX 9b