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I think this is a ti4600 card. It looks a bit odd, with that feable looking fan and no heatsinks on the RAM chips. The card looks in good condition, but the lettering on the RAM chips look faded. I wonder if that's because those chips have over heated? The problem is that when I have installed the nVidia driver (eg 45.xx, and I have also tried 66.xx), the Win98SE desktop freezes within one minute. I have tried about 6 reboots and the same thing happens: the system locks up very quickly and I have to reboot.
I thought of a couple of things - I'll try another reinstall, then check RivaTuner to see what the clock speeds are. Perhaps they have been set too high? But there's a problem with this check: I might not have enought time to run Riva Tuner before the PC locks up! Also, I wonder if it's worth trying a different PSU? I'm currently using a 480W PSU. The mobo is an Epox 8KTA3+Pro, with a 2200+ rated mobile barton.
Edit: I reinstalled the VisionTek ti4600 using the nVidia 45.xx Win98SE drivers. I ran RivaTuner, and the core and memory clocks are 300 / 650. These numbers exactly match the numbers on the wikipedia nVidia comparison webpage -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nv … rocessing_units
Unfortunately, the PC has locked up again, just after I checked these values inside Riva Tuner. I have tested another GF4 card in this Epox mobo, a Ti4200, and all was OK with it. Perhaps the ti4600 is defective?
Edit 2: I tried another driver version: 30.xx. That didn't solve this problem. I replaced the PSU with a good known working one. That didn't help either. I replaced the ti4600 with another ti4600. That didn't work! Hmmm...perhaps the ti4600s don't like the Epox mobo? I am now installing one of the ti4600s on another mobo: a slot 1 board......
Edit 3: And that doesn't work either! I change back to the first ti4600. No luck. Also, I change the RAM. No joy.
I think I have been unlucky. I got both ti4600s from the same seller. This seller put both cards together in a thin padded mailer, and it looks like they've both got damaged during transit.
Edit 4: Well there's no problem with the mobo or RAM or PSU etc. I tried a completely different ti4600 from a different seller, and it works fine.