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Geek Culture / Graphic card problems?

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HowDo
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 21:51
Hi All,

Anyone had any problems with a Nvidia 7300 se graphics card shutting down their machine, as when I run a program I have made in DbpRO it runs for about 5 Min's then pulls the plug and I get a soft reset.

I've run some code that just does number crunching and that ran OK for an hour or so, but do something heavy with graphics and it shuts down.

if it is the card, what might be a good replacement?

have updated the drivers but not much better.

Dark Physics makes any hot drink go cold.
Peter H
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 22:20
it could be overheating?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 22:41
Overheating or not enough power. Check the temperature in the display settings; it's in there somewhere. If it stays at around 45 degrees centigrade, that's about right. If so, it's the power supply.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
HowDo
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 22:52
Well checked the temperature of the graphics card and its at 59 to 60 degrees c, as for PSU checking that is going to be a bit harder.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 18th Feb 2007 00:41 Edited at: 18th Feb 2007 00:42
Yeah sounds like overheating, do a google for a program called SpeedFan then open your case and see if the fan is spinning.

Often PC's get full of dust and it clogs up the fan or heatsink, if it is, power it off and get some compressed air to blow it out.

i recommend cleaning you PC inside once a year. I had one set the dust on fire once and it was shooting flames out the back of the PSU! I kid you not!

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HowDo
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Posted: 18th Feb 2007 08:31
found the program GatorHex said, question should'nt my 12v line be higher that 10.51v as this seem very low to me.
if anyone else has or is running this program can they say what voltage reading they are getting, as I am now thinking that the 350w PSU is not up to the job or as gone a bit faulty.

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HowDo
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Posted: 18th Feb 2007 09:58 Edited at: 18th Feb 2007 11:13
Ok now I am confused, just did this test ran two DBPro programes one of which was the ball drop demo for phyics, plus had windows media run watching NASA TV plus had Kaspersky doing a drive scan, now all this lot pushed the cpu to 100% most of the time and tempature was at a 60C all the time all doing for a good 30mins.

now if I run this code



It shuts down within about 5mins so whats is the above code doing that can make it stop running.
edit
took all the real numbers out eg # numbers now runs without reset system or locking up. strange?

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Posted: 18th Feb 2007 12:45 Edited at: 18th Feb 2007 12:46
ctrl+alt+del and watch the memory numbers under the performance tab, maybe there is a bad pointer or something and you have a memory leak?

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HowDo
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Posted: 18th Feb 2007 14:21
well could be that but I have run the MS memroy checker and that came back ok, and by not using real numbers the programe has run for 3.5hrs so its something to do with real numbers on my machine.

At least I now know what I am checking .

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