Monitor Blanks Out During Any Directx9.0 Games

Hello there! Here's my problem, at random times during games, (most often games using directx 9.0 cause this) my monitor will go blank, display a no signal screen and will not be able to be turned back on. However the sound continues for a little bit and then stops. The problem is not the monitor, as I have tried it with another monitor which narrows it down to the video card. As indicated in my specs my Vcard is a Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mg. There isn't really a consistent time frame in which the errors occur, it could be anywhere from 5 minutes of playing to 5 hours. I have tried every possible version of drivers (after uninstalling previous of course)and yet the problem still crops up. You are my last hope!!! Thanks In Advance.

Hi,
Try increasing the AGP Aperture size in bios to 128........
It sounds like the card is running out of TEXTURE memory........
Del

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