Radeon 9700 Overheating???
Matt Brei
mbrei at carolina.rr.com
Sun Dec 28 06:41:00 UTC 2003
Yes, the fan is running. I always check the fan.
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 23:02, Elton Woo wrote:
> Matt Brei wrote:
>
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Anyone having what seems to be a heat problem with a 9700 or any other
> >newer radeon that uses the fglrx driver from ATI for that matter. I
> >
> >
>
> >Right away I shut down and opened up the case to feel the video card and
> >sure enough it was running quite hot. I didn't feel like messing with
> >it so I just left the machine off so it could cool down over night. At
> >first when I power up it runs fine. In the time that its taken me to
> >get this far into this message it has started again. I've tried another
> >
> Doesn't this video card come with an onboard fan? Have you tried running it
> with the case open just to make sure that the fan *is* indeed working?
> ... if it *didn't*
> come with its own fan and heat sink, then you were sold bogus goods,
> IMVHO...
> Your problem sounds more like a hardware glitch, rather than something
> caused
> by software (...short of a virus !).
>
> HTH,
>
> Elton Woo ;-)
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