[Shade00]

My friend and I both purchased PNY Ti4200 64mb cards back in September of last year. They were running fine up until the past few weeks. They were also not overclocked at all. About five weeks, mine died a suspicious death. The PCB had been getting quite hot and upon visual inspection, one of the caps had started to bulge in the top left corner of the card. Well, my friend's was still working. Until today. He called me and told me that his machine wouldn't boot. I assumed it was nothing but a BIOS flash, so I cleared the BIOS, it booted, then the monitor got no signal after a minute or two in Windows XP. A few seconds later I smelled a burning smell and I quickly shut it down, only to find that the same cap that had gone bad on my card was bulging on his! I'm going to be giving PNY a call about these cards. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

[Chaos_Being]

I have two of that exact same card- one has been running for about a year and the other for 6 months or so. No problems so far, except that the one in my machine (the 1 yr) doesn't overclock all that well, only around 590 core/540 mem =\

Hope mine don't blow up too, heh.

[Flexy]

I had the same card bought it last June. same thing happened. Top left corner of the card there ar two caps. One bulged a little bit and the transistor under it burned. Nice and crispy brown. PNY makes ****e for vid cards don't buy em. My 2 cents.


Flexy

[PoX Freak]

Same thing here, flexy. pny has been nothing but trouble since i bought a 5200 (yes, i did say "bought"), but my mx420 still runs like a champ. bios flashed to 285/325 and all......until.........POOF!!!
There goes that cap......

[Chaos_Being]

Ack... I didn't know the slightest thing about video card brands when I bought mine. I since found out that PNY wasn't that good, but not this bad!

Oh well I guess when my video card blows up I'll be justified in getting something better, heh

[Shade00]

Interesting to see that others have had the same problem. Anybody had any problems with PNY replacing their cards? I have yet to call and try to RMA - it's clearly a manufacturing defect when they blow up even at stock. Only problem is I don't have my receipts and those stickers on the back fell off....

[Chaos_Being]

Now my PNY card is acting up as well- 3Dmark 2001 froze up on the first test, and I got a video error. Took out the card, and lo and behold two of the caps to the top left of the heatsink are bulging with dried up brown crust on top of them.

Swapped my other card to this machine and everything runs fine. So, I guess I have a slowly dying card on my hands. Looks like I'll never be buying another PNY card ever again...