My 4200 has decided to stop working. Or at least I thought so... I had been messing around with my psu, and put everything back together only to find I couldn't boot into windows. The screen would turn to standby just before the "Windows XP" black screen comes up. Anyway with an old pci card from the bucket o' bits my PC works fine. I just tried the 4200 in my housemate's pc and it works fine too. I am wondering whether my motherboard (or at least AGP slot) has decided to commit suicide or my psu has crapped up. Does anyone know what rail the agp pulls power from, or whether that's even a valid question. My 5V rail is complete arse - it's an enermax 350W, I believe this was a common trouble with them. Any input much appreciated.
my enermax 5v line is rock steady at 5.05v at the moment. I think it's an issue with VIA based chipsets rather than the power supplies. My enermax read low on my KT7a-Raid, but there was more than enough power, and it was more than stable too. You can test my GF3 if you like (cos I need to know whether it still works or not ). Sticking carlehs 9800 pr0 (gaming) in there would probably not be conclusive, it draws more power than a ti4200. Did you revert the fans back to 12v, or are they still at 7v? 'cos that might be the issue, PSU getting too hot = PSU not working correctly, and providing poor voltages and impure current
Chances are it's a driver fault. Boot into safe mode, remove the video drivers, boot back into normal Windows and reinstall the video drivers and the motherboard chipset drivers.
hmm, can you move this back to Hardware, in my opinion it's power related, not graphics related... I happen to live just down the road from mrplow, and I've seen what he's done to his psu
