Serious NVidia card problems :(

[Wicked Wesley]

Hello there!

I am in the need of some help with my graphics card. Whatever I try, I keep on getting the same problems, and I think that my card might be broken/damaged somehow. My main problem are the lock ups.

Whenever I play a 3D game, like UT2004, Tux Kart, Tux Racer or America's Army the game freezes. The game starts up great, everything works, when I start a match everything works fine. Than during game play the game just freezes. The sound keeps playing and sometimes stops after a while. Than after a little while (rangeing from 10 sec to 1 minute) the game continues like nothing happend, later the game freezes again and again and again........

In windowed games, like Tux Kart, I can still move the mouse, although the whole system seems to be stuck. I can't switch to a terminal with CTRL+ALT+F1 and my gnome system monitor also freezes.

When I boot gentoo, there are some odd characters on the terminal, a random letter here and there, but when GDM/X is started, there are rows of weird characters, which make everything almost unreadable. Alot of random letters are messed up too, like when I type "gentoo", my screen shows something like: "genGGo". (This isn't a keyboard error, the text is still "gentoo", only messed up.)

On the same pc I also have Windows XP (not very up to date) and I have the same problems only way less frequent (like once every hour or so).

I don't know what to do know, maybe you can help!

Thing I've done:

Emerged NVidia Drivers (emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel)
Tried different VM's (Fluxbox and Gnome)
Tried both XFree and X.org
Checked the terminal output of a game (Doesn't say anything)
Searched these forums

My computer:
NVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP 8x
Pentium 4 3.06 GZ HT
1024 MB Ram
Kernel 2.4

Is my card damaged, or is it something about software? Please help me! Any help is welcome!

Thanks in advance!
Wesley
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[farrioth]

This definately seems like a faulty card.

Try another card in your computer, or the GeForce in another computer. If its not the card (unlikely) it may be the Mobo.

If it is the card, take it back to where you got it.