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SageTech
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2008 18:51
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Hi all,

I recently purchased a dirt cheap TV tuner card for my media server. However, The Problem, which isn't new by any means, is that one of the computer's fans will kick up, and then the computer freezes about a second. It happens at random times when doing anything semi-intensive. Ive never really cared, but now that I'm watching TV on it, its rather annoying.

Ive looked up the issue, and pretty much the only suggestion is graphics card overheating. But, I'm now running a newer card then the one that came with the system, and it happened with the last one as well.

Any ideas?


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Anonymous User
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2008 19:00
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Quote: "one of the computer's fans will kick up"


Is it the graphics card fan or another one?

If it's happening with 2 graphics card then it's your motherboard or psu, maybe the voltages are wrong, or there's not enough power.

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SageTech
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2008 19:06 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2008 19:07
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The graphics card has only a heatsync, So its got to be either the CPU or the PSU fan.


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Raven
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2008 19:31
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Have you tried a case fan? They work wonders for overheating; but to me the problem actually sounds more like a lack of memory causing a fallback to the HDD and a momentry pause while the IO kicks in and the drive spins up to be accessed.

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