Gainward geforce4 4400 suxx

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I bought the above said about a month ago and it worked fine from the off but when i built my new system and installed it i had problems getting an operating system onto it (this didnt have anything to do with the gphx card) so moved the GF4 back to my old system and bought a cheap one to put in the new system so i could get it running without changing over cards. after about 3-4 hours of doing usual stuff on the old system (surfing web) i started getting small yellow blocks all running down the screen, i rebooted and it just came up with numbers and charcters and wouldnt boot to windows, in the mean time i got an operating system to run on the new system so i swapped cards to see if was the old pc and the problem was the same.
I contacted Overclockers to return and they told me they were having probs with gainward cards and i had to contact them myself as they were doing the support for them. i had to send my card back and they would send me another one.

Got my new one today  guess fkin wat put in new card and woohoo it is good, install drivers "29.42" reboot yep you have guessed it the same fking problem  :x or not quite the difference this time is that it doesnt have any numbers or charcters but the same problem of yellow blocks and odd colours but this time it doesnt start at the bios screen it starts at the windows boot screen and hangs just sits there and doesnt do anything.
Gainward wouldnt shit em .......one very f00ked off smite :evil:

[Dr Sadako]

I know this for a fact on my card in any case (Geforce 3 Ti500 by Leadtek). DO NOT USE THE LATEST NVIDIA DRIVERS. THEY F**K UP YOUR COMPUTER!

When I went from 23.11 to 29.42 my FPS in Unreal Tournament (1280x1020x32, graphics at max) went from 150 to 12. Couldn't even start HL/CS and some other games.

My advice is throw those shitty drivers out and never install them again. Friends of mine have had a similar experiences and all run on older versions.

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I have tried the older versions and still nothing.
But they were running fine on the old system for over a month.
BTW all protective gear and precautions were taken.

[Gandalf]

I use the latest drivers (30.xx can't remember exactly) on my geforce2 ultra with no probs.

[Tutonic]

Just an idea...

In BIOS, try setting your AGP Apature to 64meg (no higher), I was told today it can screw stuff up....

Guarantee: This is not guaranteed to work at all...

[Doorman]

I've got a Gf3 ti500 with 29.42 drivers. Perfect. In fact I can see OldBloke's nose hairs.

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It was on 64 as i have a crappy tnt riva in there at the moment :cry:

[Tox's dad]

shit smitey u get up early! r u a milkman or summat?.......

[JB]

Nah he's just a saddo with no life   :wink:


No hang on that's me   :cry:

[Gandalf]

oh, nvidia have just released the det 40 drivers. (win2k/XP only)

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_40.41

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Yeah i was going to mention them last night. they are supposed to increase performance by 25% wether this is true with games i dont know but on the forums i read 3Dmark2001SE scores jumped by 25% and more.
Still doesnt matter Coz i had to send this card back to Gainward in germany aswell. When i spoke to germany they said that the onboard memory was corrupt and for it to happen to both of them i was very unlucky so as soon as they recieve mine back they will send out ANOTHER new one. great wonder how good this one is gona be.
Anyway ive been looking around for a cheap but decent card to get me by as this hercules is doing my head in. i thought i had found a Geforce4 4200 64meg for £70 today but when i went to pick it up the dipshit didnt have a fkin clue wat the difference was between a 4200 and a 420. the fkin difference appeared to be about £80 usless TW@T so that was some wasted petrol anyway gona try and find one somewhere over the weekend to get me by.
Still F00ked off gotdamnmotherfkinuslessgraphicscardcuntenies

[Anonymous]

GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB DDR AGP RP DVI VO DualCRT
Quicklinx: 21JQWS

£112.79

From Dabs.com

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Yep already tried there BB they cant get me one for this weekend.
I have other avenues my mate JAS is sorting, maybe, hopefully.

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Dont blame them for the mix up between the 400 and 4000 series ..blame the Bloke who gave u the contact number of a second rate PC store. :oops:

Let this be a warning to you ALL never listen to me..

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Lesson learned :x  :x  :x