Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 23:51:47 10/08/03
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On October 08, 2003 at 23:01:03, John Merlino wrote: >On October 08, 2003 at 19:36:48, Peter Collins wrote: > >>I have never before encountered this problem: >> >>after installing August 2003? (the latest) drivers on a new system (that Barton >>XP2800 I referred to earlier), running Fritz 8 at the maximum allowable setting >>(1228MB RAM of 1.5GB) during infinite analysis, the video display freezes after >>variously 10 to 100 hours. >> >>I've noticed that so far, abstaining from the powersaver and/or screen-saver >>programs (using XP PRO OS) prevents freezing... >> >>Funny thing happens during a freeze sometimes: the small clock on the >>engine/evaluation panel will go nuts, i.e. 60x to 600x faster... also, vertical >>alternating stripes of gold and black are typically seen during the freeze. >> >>I've had other systems where Fritz 8 runs without this problem. >> >>Anyone else experience this, and is the lowering of the ram setting slightly a >>useful or logical suggestion? >> >>I recall the driver is v.45.23, I use Samsung RAM, and an NEC monitor... >> >>Thanks in advance for any feedback. > >This suspiciously sounds to me like the video card (and/or CPU) is overheating. >I had similar random visual wackiness, and that's what it turned out to be. You >might check the fan(s) and ventilation in the system. > >jm I suspect the same. I just went through massive heating problems with an Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4800SE8XAGP card. When idle my system was sitting at 39 degrees Celcius, but when using the card for anything the temp went to 58 degrees. I RMA'd the card and for some reason the same company sent me a Radeon 9600 Pro. Now I sit idle at 29 C, and when in full use in games I it goes up to a max of 36 C. Quite a difference. The best app I know of to test the temp is hmonitor found here http://www.hmonitor.com/ It is a demo for 30 days, but by then you should have an accurate account of what is happening.
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