I've had my trusty GF4 Ti4600 for ages now, but for the past few days it has been exhibiting some strange behaviours.
It all started about three days ago when I woke to find a BSOD along the lines of "Page/Swap file error". Can't remember what exactly. Later that day I tried to have a blast @ FarCry...the menus loaded fine but it crapped out as soon as the main gain loaded :/ Just went to a black screen and I had to reboot. I tried several more times and the same thing happened each time. So I tried Call of Duty ... same thing menus work but no game play...
I've tried different benchmarking software to test the video card ... 3D Mark 2001, 2003 and PCMark 04. The first 2 crash instantly as soon as 3D graphics are even whispered about, but it did manage to perform a few tests on PCMark...before it hung.
I tried playing FarCry with an old GF2 MX card and although it looked and played like my ***, it did work... I also tried unistalling the GF4 completly and reinstalling with the latest drivers, but with no positive effect.
Am I right in assuming my card has given up the right to live? Everything else works 100% fine including loading windows, encoding video, all the dxdiag tests and basically anything other than 3D graphics (other than aforementioned dxdiag tests!).
Some advice would be appreciated, such as an ipso defacto method of finding out where my card is screwed or not! Thanks
It all started about three days ago when I woke to find a BSOD along the lines of "Page/Swap file error". Can't remember what exactly. Later that day I tried to have a blast @ FarCry...the menus loaded fine but it crapped out as soon as the main gain loaded :/ Just went to a black screen and I had to reboot. I tried several more times and the same thing happened each time. So I tried Call of Duty ... same thing menus work but no game play...
I've tried different benchmarking software to test the video card ... 3D Mark 2001, 2003 and PCMark 04. The first 2 crash instantly as soon as 3D graphics are even whispered about, but it did manage to perform a few tests on PCMark...before it hung.
I tried playing FarCry with an old GF2 MX card and although it looked and played like my ***, it did work... I also tried unistalling the GF4 completly and reinstalling with the latest drivers, but with no positive effect.
Am I right in assuming my card has given up the right to live? Everything else works 100% fine including loading windows, encoding video, all the dxdiag tests and basically anything other than 3D graphics (other than aforementioned dxdiag tests!).
Some advice would be appreciated, such as an ipso defacto method of finding out where my card is screwed or not! Thanks