MSI Geforce4 Ti4600 w/ Soyo Dragon Plus KT266A - system locking up in

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Det.JohnKimble

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I just paid a pretty penny for the Geforce4 Ti4600 VTD model, just to find out it locks up in games on my system. This replaces a VisionTek 4400 I bought just a couple months ago, and that card had absolutely no hitches or problems, even when installing. I bought the MSI because I wanted Video Input capability, and the features were nicer than the VisionTek 4600 model that has Vid-In.

Anyway, to the point. I can only play games for a few minutes before they crash and I have to reboot my system. To try and fix it, I updated my VIA 4in1 drivers, and I tried both MSI's nVidia drivers and nVidia's Detonator drivers, to no avail. I set my BIOS AGP Aperture size to 256MB. When I installed the MSI card, I uninstalled the VisionTek from the Device Manager, so I don't know what the problem could be. Here is what I have....


Windows XP Professional
Soyo Dragon Plus KT266A
1 GB of RAM
Athlon XP 1600 CPU
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card

 
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Try setting the bios to it's defaults without any tweaking to see if it isn't a bios setting.

-Is there a bios update for the board?
-What operating system are you using?
-What are the specs of your power supply?
 
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OK, I will try setting the BIOS to defaults. There is a new BIOS update, but I kind of put it off because I figured it wouldn't address this issue, but maybe you're right. I will update BIOS and set BIOS to defaults.

I am running XP Professional. And like I said, the VisionTek G4 Ti4400 worked perfectly in this same exact environment.

Thanks for the suggestions
 
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I tried resetting the BIOS, and it didn't help. Soyo has a BIOS update but it is in BETA, so I don't want to use it.

I don't know the full specs on my power supply, but I do know it is over 300 Watts, and has never caused any problems with other hardware.

I use Windows XP, and let me say the VisionTek I had worked perfect from installation, never causing any troubles. I never had to change any settings either.

Bottom line is, I appreciate your help, but you are not the first person to give me advice that isn't fixing this problem, so if I don't have it fixed by Friday I'm ordering a LeadTek or VisionTek to replace it and will sell the MSI. It is not worth the trouble I'm going through, and I notice on all kinds of different G4 forums that MSI is the most common brand name in requests for troubleshooting, which means it is a buggy card.
 
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ok heres a few things to try

In the BIOS make sure video shadowing is OFF

AGP aperture is set to 128MB, I found 256MB caused problems

Reset your PNP confirguration

Make sure u uninstall all remainance of the Visiontek 4400 check on device manager under hidden devices

Also this worked for a friend, use a pencil erazor to clean the contacts on the AGP card itself, make sure it fingerprint free (don't ask how it worked but it did)

Have you tried Re-Installing Windows? as I do this on every hardware upgrade as a common practise

Does your PSU meet 30A on 3.3V ? mine is 20A and i have occasional lock-ups/blk.s.o.d im changing my PSU end of the month for one which surpasses that spec

Make sure the GPU fan is spinning, some get stuck/or spin slow due to being sticky and cause the GPU to overheat causing lock-ups

i'll keep thinking but that will give u a start :D best of luck to ya

Athlonix
 
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