Another dead g4 4600

[kuzma]

Unfortunalty I 've join the dead g4 4600 group. Installed
my XP 2800 into my 8RDA+, one stick 512mb Crosair XMS 3500 in the
first memory slot and my g4. All went well, had to reinstall XP,
but no major problem.
After letting it run for a while, I decided to add my other stick of
512mb Crosair XMS 3500 in the third slot to see if I was going to have the problem some people have been having. Booting up I
get the C1 error, plus no video. Tried everthing to get it to post,
nothing.
Put a old V3 3000 pci in, it boots right up. I don't have another
agp card I'm willing to sacrifice. If I put the g4 in the agp slot, it wont post at all, even with the V3 still hook to the monitor. Tried
g4 in other machine, dead.

My card was a Visiontek, rumors have been BFG may honor
Visiontek waranty.

[Robin B]

Ouch,sombody must adress this problem of killed cards right away.This is not good,havent heard of it before i found this forum but now i think there is to many with this killing syndrome.

[EluSiOn]

kuzma,

Tough luck, my GF3 died (unrelated to 8RDA+ and I never my OC GF3 card and GF3 was used on my AMD 1600 system which I don't OC at all). I send couple RMA requests to VisionTek and on their website forms. They promised they will respond within 24 hrs on their website. However, it's been 3 days and I have not yet receive any email. I am about to call them.

Again, You might be the 7th person who reported a burnt/bad GF4 card when you put your it into 8RDA+...

Q1: Did you properly ground yourself when you put your RAM in? Like using a wrist band or touch PSU.

Q2: Are you able to confirm that your GF4 is fried and it will not work on other motherboard?

Q3: Did you OC your system previously? either increase FSB cause AGP frequency out of spec and also using tweak utilities like Riva Tuner to adjust Core speed and memory speed on your GF4 card?

[kuzma]

After reading these boards for the last week or so, I took
more care than usual, and was taking no chances. Thats what
makes me think there might be something more to this than
just "user error".
I have check the card on two other board, nothing.

I also don't OC my card, or the system. Hope you(we) have
some luck with Visiontek. I tried BFG, but their tech/support
line wasn't working earlier.

Leaning toward sending this 8rda+ back though.

[Stanley Jobson]

Which BIOS did you boot the first time - when the GF4 went down? I bet it was the original BIOS!

[AutoSear]

This is getting scarey. I'm sorry to hear about your board. Your experiences, though, may help solve this issue. I think you are the first one with the gf4 issue to identify the exact step it went bad - adding your second memory stick to slot 3. It might be worth looking into the memory configs of the other fried gf4 systems.

[stinger]

Hmm now there are to many of them to call it a coincident

[Stanley Jobson]

My new Leadtek A250TD just works fine! No problems so far! Maybe the original BIOS was the reason for the bunch of smoked GF4?

[kuzma]

Yes it was the original bios. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do.
I was waiting for the new nVidia card to come out. Thinking of
going with a ATI 9500 to hold me over till then. I do have a
GF3 ti500, but I got two systems going.
Also debating should I RMA this board, go with ASUS, or stick with
this one. Ahh decisions.

[rocky500]

Your post sound similar to the 2 cards my friend smoked.

Interesting that you mentioned it happened when you installed the 2nd memory chip.
He had 2 memory sticks in Banks 2 & 3 when he installed the board from the start.
Could it be related to 2 memory sticks & orig bios?

Any one else had 2 sticks of memory in when there Video card died?

[Corn]

I had 2 sticks in @ 1:st boot (2x256meg) running 128bit interface
when my GF4 4400 died...

[Galifrey]

I wonder if this is an AGP voltage issue?

Perhaps some of the bios's have gone out with the default set too high for AGP port? ie 1.7v not 1.5?

Perhaps a CMOS reset would be a good cautionary move with these mobo's?

[$m0k3]

im having issues with my gf4 also except i dont have a pci to try it with........any suggestions about getting it to boot?

[xgman]

Originally posted by kuzma
Unfortunalty I 've join the dead g4 4600 group. Installed
my XP 2800 into my 8RDA+, one stick 512mb Crosair XMS 3500 in the
first memory slot and my g4. All went well, had to reinstall XP,
but no major problem.
After letting it run for a while, I decided to add my other stick of
512mb Crosair XMS 3500 in the third slot to see if I was going to have the problem some people have been having. Booting up I
get the C1 error, plus no video. Tried everthing to get it to post,
nothing.

My ti4600 died when I shut down and removed the dual slot memory to run in single mode. (c10 bios) No video on reboot and yes I tried it in another computer. the stick that remained in the slot was also in the 3rd slot. I also was running a 2800+. Strange, and costly I might add...

[xgman]

Originally posted by Galifrey
I wonder if this is an AGP voltage issue?

Perhaps some of the bios's have gone out with the default set too high for AGP port? ie 1.7v not 1.5?

Perhaps a CMOS reset would be a good cautionary move with these mobo's?

Mine was at default.