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No automatic fan spinups on my very old ATI Radeon 4870 video card in Windows XP Pro SP3?
OK, I reproduced the same issue with old Crysis 1 by idling during my
late lunch. It looks like I need to clear my out dusty computers too. :/ How hot does it get? Earlier today, my video card got up to 90C/194F degrees earlier with its fan to the max (5K) in my ~85F degrees room. I made RivTuner graph the temperatures. Ouch, too hot. Amazingly, it didn't crash quickly like yesterday. I was playing Steam's free weekend of Dead Island game before it crashed. :P Yes, if you haven't cleaned the dust out of the card in a long time, that's not so good. Also, you could verify speed changes while it's open. It doesn't change automatically. I have to force it. Maybe it has a fan and heatsink under a cover? You might have to take it out and blow through there with compressed air, or better, take the cover off and dig out all the junk. I am still using the same fan and uhh plastic cover that came with this MSI video card. I know the fan is loud and blow hard at 100% (5K RPMs) for this fan when I force it through ATI's CCC software. And maybe put a fan in front of it blowing into it. Or get a zalman bracket. It looks like this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000292DNG/...viewsofbo0a-20 Might be discontinued but they have one here, just the bracket, and you use your own fan: http://www.xoxide.com/zalfanbrac.html Yeah, I need to clean this computer and fix the cooling. If the card is still crashing. I think I will just get a new PCIe video card since this is so old. It might have damages too like seen with those stickers. -- Quote of the Week: "When I am at my lowest, that is when I see things the clearest. It's hard to care about ants when you're soaring with eagles." --unknown Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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