moondog
09-04-2006, 07:40 AM
Clean inside the heat sink of those video cards. Although I regularly clean the inside of my computer case. I never thought to clean the heat sink which is wrapped inside that plastic cover next to the turbine fan on video boards. After 3 years that's a lot of dirt and lessening air flow, and so a slowly frying chip.
The failure started with Windows Media Player refusing to play mpeg files and then the dreaded 'nv4_disp in infinite loop'. (nv4_disp is the NVIDIA driver). Everyone on the net said it was a driver problem. I tried several driver verions, I even installed the "fix" to stop the looping. What it actually seems to be is the driver not being able to communicate with the hardware.
Replaced the board, problem gone, even with the same old drivers.
So clean those video cards. Its worth the time.
The failure started with Windows Media Player refusing to play mpeg files and then the dreaded 'nv4_disp in infinite loop'. (nv4_disp is the NVIDIA driver). Everyone on the net said it was a driver problem. I tried several driver verions, I even installed the "fix" to stop the looping. What it actually seems to be is the driver not being able to communicate with the hardware.
Replaced the board, problem gone, even with the same old drivers.
So clean those video cards. Its worth the time.