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I have this Gainward Geforce 3 ti200 128mb card I've been using for quite a while but recently its been putting white horizontal bars on the screen upon bootup. For a while I thought this was a motherboard problem but I popped this old Geforce 2 mx I had laying around and the pc worked like a breeze. The card looks in perfect condition I don't understand, is their something wrong with the actual card itself or could it be the onboard bios or something to that effect? Whats weird is my friend has turned on my pc after this has happened before and it worked perfectly, now it's doing it all the time. Any suggestions?

1- is your card overclocked?
If yes, then put the speeds back to the normal defaults and try again

boot with the flakyy card in the box and see if the fan is spinning like it should

replace fan if necessary

clean out the heatsink on the fan and any dust on the card and the agp slot

hate to say it but i had not 1 but 2 visiontek tI200's that did the same thing right before death- thank god for lifetime warrantys

Add me to the list of those who suffered similar visiontek failures. Mine was a ti4200 that did the same thing.

Check the heatsink fan, clean the heatsink and take a pencil eraser and gently clean the contacts on the bottom of the card where it goes into the agp slot.

The fan spins correctly, I will try and clean the contacts and see if that helps. The card has never been overclocked, it did come with some software to do so but I never had it over the normal specs. Unfortunately I don't have a warranty on it anylonger. I am thinking I might possibly replace it with a FX 5600 256m, but so far I haven't heard too many good things from the FX cards.

tI4200 would be a better buy

okay thanks Ill think about that

yea, the only fx worth its weight in anything is the 5900 and its Way over priced.

Why do you say its no longer under waranty? you just rma it threw visiontek (which is now owned by someone else)

Also, I have had it where things are messing up, removed the whole heatsink cleaned under it and that fixed the prob after reinstalling heatsink with new artic silver or what ever. Worth a shot atleast.

Greg

Ah the wonders of as3.

Not under warranty because I bought it used from NewEgg, only give u like 30 days.

Originally posted by livingsacrifice
Not under warranty because I bought it used from NewEgg, only give u like 30 days.

I may be wrong but I believe that means that Newegg will only except the return for 30 days. The manufacture is more than likely still bound by the warranty they offered on the card. Worth a try all they can do is say no.

Ah ha, I found out that the fan is not working, it smells blown too. Who sells one that would fit directly on top of this chip, and how the heck do I take this old one off? This might be the problem.

push pins or epoxy? if it is a gf4 then I would sugest one of these: http://www.kdcomputers.com/eui/prime/pr ... ponent.htm

they are neet looking and cool really well. but call visiontek and tell them they should just give you one.

Greg

push pins, came out easy, I just cut em off since the other fan will have them. I don't have a visiontek card, its a Gainward. That fan looks nice, but their is one on newegg thats red and its only 7.99, the reviews have wonderful things said about it.