Video Randomly Shutting Down
Is it that the card goes into sleep mode and refuses to wake up? I have
seen that but mostly on older GeForce cards with some newer Detonator 4 drivers. If you suspect a heat problem you can get a Thermaltake Crystal Orb cooler (heatsink and fan combo) for under $20 and replace the heatsink only thing that comes on a lot of FX 5200 cards. If you are under Windows 98 or ME and it's going to sleep then not waking up I'd suspect a driver issue somewhere. I haven't seen it under Windows XP or 2000 only ME and 98SE. Ron "amarx" wrote in message om... Since installing an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra a few days ago, I've been having a strange problem: After several hours, when the computer has been sitting idle, the video goes dead on the monitor. The computer's power remains on and seems to be fine. When I re-boot, everything is fine again until it happens again. I'm running the latest drivers for the card and my Asus P4T533 motherboard. This only started happening after installing the card, so I'm assuming it's the card. The only thing I can think of is that it's an overheating problem. Any help would be appreciated. |
"Ron Merts" wrote in message t...
Is it that the card goes into sleep mode and refuses to wake up? I have seen that but mostly on older GeForce cards with some newer Detonator 4 drivers. If you suspect a heat problem you can get a Thermaltake Crystal Orb cooler (heatsink and fan combo) for under $20 and replace the heatsink only thing that comes on a lot of FX 5200 cards. If you are under Windows 98 or ME and it's going to sleep then not waking up I'd suspect a driver issue somewhere. I haven't seen it under Windows XP or 2000 only ME and 98SE. Ron "amarx" wrote in message om... Since installing an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra a few days ago, I've been having a strange problem: After several hours, when the computer has been sitting idle, the video goes dead on the monitor. The computer's power remains on and seems to be fine. When I re-boot, everything is fine again until it happens again. I'm running the latest drivers for the card and my Asus P4T533 motherboard. I ended up replacing the card with another nVidia card, this time the GeForce 5600 FX and it's doing the same thing, so it's probably not the card. I'm running XP. This only started happening after installing the card, so I'm assuming it's the card. The only thing I can think of is that it's an overheating problem. Any help would be appreciated. |
I have the same problem with my PNY GeForce4 4600. If I go back to 3x.xx
drivers I'm ok for a month or two. The newest drivers last about 10 minutes before I go into "sleep" mode. I have to reboot, uninstall the drivers, and go back to old ones. I have XP Pro. "amarx" wrote in message om... "Ron Merts" wrote in message t... Is it that the card goes into sleep mode and refuses to wake up? I have seen that but mostly on older GeForce cards with some newer Detonator 4 drivers. If you suspect a heat problem you can get a Thermaltake Crystal Orb cooler (heatsink and fan combo) for under $20 and replace the heatsink only thing that comes on a lot of FX 5200 cards. If you are under Windows 98 or ME and it's going to sleep then not waking up I'd suspect a driver issue somewhere. I haven't seen it under Windows XP or 2000 only ME and 98SE. Ron "amarx" wrote in message om... Since installing an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra a few days ago, I've been having a strange problem: After several hours, when the computer has been sitting idle, the video goes dead on the monitor. The computer's power remains on and seems to be fine. When I re-boot, everything is fine again until it happens again. I'm running the latest drivers for the card and my Asus P4T533 motherboard. I ended up replacing the card with another nVidia card, this time the GeForce 5600 FX and it's doing the same thing, so it's probably not the card. I'm running XP. This only started happening after installing the card, so I'm assuming it's the card. The only thing I can think of is that it's an overheating problem. Any help would be appreciated. |
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