First post, by siopoudis
Hey everyone,
I recently built a Win98SE PC with the following hardware:
P3 750Mhz / 100Mhz FSB
Gigabyte GA-6BXE Rev1.9 Motherboard (440BX chipset)
512MB Non-ECC SDRAM
Geforce 4Ti 4200 128MB (I have both an MSI and Gainward card)
Sound Blaster 16 ISA
2x Diamond Voodoo2 12MB in SLI
Seasonic Platinum Fanless PSU 400W
The problem is that the display turns off after a while, even when idling on the Windows desktop. It's worse in 3D games, the crash comes way sooner as soon as some stress is put on the card.
It's not a power-saving mode as I've completely disabled that, but the display turns off and the system freezes (keyboard not responding to commands either).
I tried 2 different Geforce4 Ti cards and the behaviour is the same. Also tried a copper cooler etc.
The reason I focus on cooling is because if I underclock the GPU (from 250MHz to 225MHz) the crashing goes away, and the behaviour is exactly the same on both cards.
I tried installing a Thermaltake copper cooler on one of the cards, but the behaviour is exactly the same.
Drivers are Detonator 45.23
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!