Author: Peter Collins
Date: 15:33:23 10/14/03
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On October 09, 2003 at 04:02:32, Nolan Denson wrote: >Because of the note about the little display clock ... it is my belief that the >over heating is because of the CPU's ... With the new video card .. extra heat >is being generated .. .... try to monitor the heat like some of the others >mentioned and check ventillation ... also try to run this test with the covers >off. If all checks could and heat isn't really that high ... i would then think >does your cpu's have the correct voltage going to them .. (this can be checked >in the bios) .. but what ever it is its because of too much heat is being >causing the cpu to become unstable .... but then again .. if its not rebooting >and its like a freeze on the display ... the video card is the problem. Usually >over heating cpu's gives the blue screen of death ... it you are not getting the >blue screen .. try using a much earlier driver for the video card. After quickly reading all the posts (thanks!) I think that it is not the temperature, nor the CPU (IMO, anything under 55-60 is still okay, I read that the AMD specs for the CPU are 85-90C... and this is a cheap $40 card, not that I know much about it). It's been running now for about continuously for 150 hours on 800x640, without any powersaver/screensaver programs... I bought this at a discounter that put those ridiculous stickers on the case that says that the warranty is void if I remove the stickers! :). All the monitors indicate that temp is okay... Thanks for the reference to the guru3d and the idea of older drivers...
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