First post, by Repo Man11
- Rank
- Oldbie
I bought this card since it's equivalent to a Ti 4400; since it had some obviously bad capacitors, it was reasonably priced. On arrival, I first popped it into my 930 LMR board, which has Windows 98. The POST screen looked good, and the splash screen looked good - but when it got to what was supposed to be the desktop, it was a garbled mess (no different in Safe Mode). Crestfallen, I took it out and tried it in my Epox 8KRA2, which is set up with Windows XP. I got to the desktop with no issues, and it ran 3D Mark 2001 and 2003 flawlessly. I chalked the first attempt up to some oddity with Win98 and swapping videos cards without uninstalling the old one, and gave the seller good feedback.
After recapping it, I again tested it in my 8KRA, and it again worked with no issues at all. I did want to run it with Windows 98, so I decided to put it in another motherboard and do a clean install of Win98. I used an Aopen i855GME, but when it got through the install, the same thing happened when it got to the desktop. I then left everything as it was, and installed WinXP, and again it worked perfectly fine!
I doubt there is a solution (I suspect it's a hardware problem), but I'd like to know if any of the video card gurus have seen this before and perhaps have an explanation?
"I'd rather be rich than stupid" - Jack Handey