Reply 30760 of 30762, by TechieDude
So, today I had to downgrade my overkill Win9x PC from a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128MB to GeForce 4 MX440 128MB DDR, due to some weird artifacts. At least it is AGP 8x and still has 128MB DDR, but it remains a rebranded GF2 DX7 GPU. I'm not sure the GPU is really dead, though. It seems like an actual BGA problem, because squeezing the cooler affects the artifacts, but I don't know for sure either way. It's not like I have a BGA rework station either, so...
The lower end GPU still runs the games fine, so it's not that bad. I also noticed that GeForce 3 and 4 GPUs are kinda hard to find around here, while pretty much anything else (except 3dfx of course) is fairly common.
Might as well share the full specs of my system:
- Board: ASRock775i65G R3.0
- CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5800 3.2GHz
- RAM: 2GB (2x1GB DDR400)
- GPU: GeForce 4 MX440 8x 128MB DDR
- HDD1: WD400JB-00ENA0 40GB IDE
- HDD2: WD800JB-00JJC0 80GB IDE
- OS 1: Windows ME (+ Unofficial Service Pack, PATCHMEM)
- OS 2: Windows XP Pro SP3 (+ POSReady2009 Updates)
- OS 3: Devuan 6 32-bit (broken mess, might reinstall, GRUB makes multiboot easy)
The only issue I really have with the system is that it takes a bit to POST, but one it does, it works fine.