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I have purchased a G400 16mb singlehead, and I am having problems.
1. Crashes during 3d. Sometimes my system will either blue screen, lock up, or reboot when playing 3d games.
2. Internet Explorer crashes intermittently, either during page loading or when scrolling up or down. The error message mentions GDI.EXE.
3. Weird dark bands appear on the screen sometimes, like when I resize a window. Imagine a monitor set to an invalid video mode, with bands streaking across the CRT. Those bands are faintly superimposed on my regular display. It's really bad when, in IE, I decide to resize a resizable frame, click, hold, and move the mouse.
4. Weird "color splitting" effect. This only happened once - it's the rarest effect. I brought up IE, surfed a bit, and suddenly I was scrolling down when the red and green channels scrolled down, but the blue channel stayed where it was. I minimized IE and the bluish-tinged image of the page I was viewing was superimposed on the desktop. I brought up the My Computer window and moved it. Again, the red and green channels moved, leaving the blue behind. Now the bluish IE-image was partially obscured by a bluish My Computer window, all that was superimposed on the desktop and a red/green/yellow My Computer window I was dragging around. The mouse pointer was unaffected. I had to temporarily switch color depths to fix the weird display.
So, what do you think the problem is? Here are my system specs:
Celeron 366 oc to 550 (and yes I tried running at just 366 and the problems didn't go away)
Abit ZM6
Sb Live Value
ISA NE2000 NIC
Powerdesk 5.13.020 (Something odd: when I disable busmastering all my games crash upon loading)
Windows 98
192 MB 8ns CAS 2 RAM (rated for 125mhz)
1. Crashes during 3d. Sometimes my system will either blue screen, lock up, or reboot when playing 3d games.
2. Internet Explorer crashes intermittently, either during page loading or when scrolling up or down. The error message mentions GDI.EXE.
3. Weird dark bands appear on the screen sometimes, like when I resize a window. Imagine a monitor set to an invalid video mode, with bands streaking across the CRT. Those bands are faintly superimposed on my regular display. It's really bad when, in IE, I decide to resize a resizable frame, click, hold, and move the mouse.
4. Weird "color splitting" effect. This only happened once - it's the rarest effect. I brought up IE, surfed a bit, and suddenly I was scrolling down when the red and green channels scrolled down, but the blue channel stayed where it was. I minimized IE and the bluish-tinged image of the page I was viewing was superimposed on the desktop. I brought up the My Computer window and moved it. Again, the red and green channels moved, leaving the blue behind. Now the bluish IE-image was partially obscured by a bluish My Computer window, all that was superimposed on the desktop and a red/green/yellow My Computer window I was dragging around. The mouse pointer was unaffected. I had to temporarily switch color depths to fix the weird display.
So, what do you think the problem is? Here are my system specs:
Celeron 366 oc to 550 (and yes I tried running at just 366 and the problems didn't go away)
Abit ZM6
Sb Live Value
ISA NE2000 NIC
Powerdesk 5.13.020 (Something odd: when I disable busmastering all my games crash upon loading)
Windows 98
192 MB 8ns CAS 2 RAM (rated for 125mhz)
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