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« on: November 18, 2008, 08:46:24 PM » |
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Hi all.. looking for a bit of help here. Its a bit of a story but please bear with me lol......
My PC started acting up recently. It started with it freezing at random, not a lot though just on the odd occasion. Then it would freeze but with the screen looking weird.. ie pink with dashes through it or blue with dashes. On the reboot, occasionally, I was getting 8 beeps from the POST (video error) and then a message saying overclocking had failed, restoring defaults (battery problem? Replaced the battery and it ran fine for a couple of days.). Then yesterday it froze and when i tried to reboot it refused to POST and i was getting no beeps. The fans were working, power was going to the drives but all Igot was a blank screen and no beeps and a refusal to boot. I thought the GFX card had died so i removed it and borrowed an old one of Keasy's to tide me over as I was going to RMA mine's.
Here's the thing though, when i inserted my keasy's GFX card I got the same result. No boot, no POST beeps, power to drives and fans working fine.
So I strips out the PC shovd my GFX card back in with just the processor and one stick of memory in it and got the same result. checked all the connections and tried it again a few times and it still wouldn't boot. I gave up but after an hour I decided to give it one last go. It booted and POSTED. So I started reinstalling all the parts one by one and testing as I went. Everything is working, or seems to be working fine, for now.
I know I've got a problem somewhere..it's either the GFX card, the power supply or the mobo that is on the road out. What I need to know is which one is it and thats where you come in lol.
Any advice is appreciated guys.. this is doing my head in as i Know it'll probably happen again.
Again.. sorry for the long drawn out story lol
Cheers
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2008, 08:55:26 PM » |
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My money is on a flaky power supply, what rating does it have, how long have you had it and what make is it?  Usually when the GFX card cooks, it's permanent. Heat I don't think is a problem because there would have been enough time for the whole lot to cool down while you were swapping stuff out, so that's why I think it might be the PSU.  |
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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2008, 09:02:52 PM » |
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Casecom 500w had it for about two years.
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2008, 09:13:26 PM » |
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Never heard of the make..but it does have a few stars on ebuyer.  You could download Speedfan http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php click on the Charts tab and select Voltages (tick all the boxes), then see if it fluctuates much over a period of time (fire a game up). (I think that AVcc refers to your PCI-E voltage, might be one to watch) |
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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2008, 09:19:41 PM » |
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Cheers Allan, I'll give it a bash tomorrow night once i get back from work.
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« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2008, 10:34:03 AM » |
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Never heard of the make..but it does have a few stars on ebuyer. What doesn't, lol. |
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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2008, 10:52:27 AM » |
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Well, that's true!  It's probably the "oooh! shiney!" effect and they've starred it twenty minutes after it's arrived. |
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2008, 01:09:25 PM » |
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Sorry to but in but using speedfan it says my GPU & Core are at 50C with little fire icons flashing on and off ...  Is this something I should worry about.. That's with Eve & internet running... |
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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2008, 01:15:09 PM » |
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Have you got you're temp warning settings right? It might be that you have your red flags set at the wrong temp. 50C isn't that hot, TBH. That is unless you're running a 6200 vid card. |
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2008, 01:29:05 PM » |
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Yep temp warning set to 50C.......What lvl is hot..??
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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2008, 01:39:50 PM » |
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I would say anything above 60c would be looked at as being hot.
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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2008, 01:44:25 PM » |
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Yep temp warning set to 50C.......What lvl is hot..??
What card? Research you're card and find out what you're normal load temps are, then change them in speedfan. Edit: Even 60c @ load is not that bad for some cards. It really depends on the manufacturer, gpu and often how well they follow or better the reference heat sink design. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2008, 03:36:43 PM » |
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I generally think anything over 75 C for either is worrying, although some GPU's can run up to the 90's without breaking a sweat.  |
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2008, 10:01:20 AM » |
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8800s have been tested at 150c by nVidia apparently, though i believe they shut off in drivers at 127c these days.
mine hovers at 84c with SLI atm.
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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2008, 10:15:03 AM » |
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Now that's bloody hot!!!  |
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