[lug] any geforce4 ti series experience?

[Jeff howell]

Sounds like the card was either damaged by the cold or perhaps your
powersupply isn't providing enough juice to the card. The ti series
cards will use a lot more juice than an old GF2 FX card. 

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:36, D. Stimits wrote:
> I'm trying to replace a failing older GeForce256 DDR card (streaking and 
> bleaching), and having bad luck with LeadTek ti 4400 cards (nice prices 
> for bad hardware). The same computer works perfectly without even 
> changing config if I drop in a borrowed GeForce2 MX400 series card (and 
> except for bleaching/streaking the old card works too).
> 
> What I am seeing are artifacts in some text modes (on previous returned 
> card that arrived with frost on it from sitting in the cold delivery 
> truck it had noise/artifacts in every mode), and inability to reach 
> graphics modes for the most part. Win2k will work with extreme 
> noise/artifacts if 640x480 and 256 colors, but locks up and goes 
> completely dead in all other modes when using the LeadTek ti 4400 (this 
> is a replacement to the replacement). Everything I see on the web tells 
> me that the GeForce4 ti 4400 works on linux, that I am just having bad 
> luck with this particular hardware (2 in a row).
> 
> Can anyone here verify whether a GeForce4 ti 4400 (or relatives 
> 4200/4600) work at all? Till I get this fixed the comp sits mostly idle.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
> 
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