| ? posted by Orpheus | ||
if it overheats so easily, you might see if you have the voltages set correctly.. i am not positive on this, but i am betting, unless its an auto setting AGP slot, you might need to set a jumper some place. my 9000 never over heats, even while running power hungry games.. and it has no cooling fan at all.. |
I checked the bios settings and they seem correct. I aslo used to use another motherboard, and that had the same problem on my old one. I have a copper heatsink on it, with a fan running at about 4500rpm so I doubt thats the problem. The temp of inside my case is normally no more than 30 degrees C so theres no problem there either. The wierd thing is it runs perfect on some games, Max Payne 2 runs excellent, it even runs nice with antialiasing enabled, unlke games like neverwinter nights and vietcong, where I rarely can run the game for more than 30min. I've tried everything I know to fix the problems with no result. I'm pretty sure it's an overheating issue, sinse the video card shuts down when it happens, the monitor goes blank and the standby light goes on, resulting in the need to restart.
You can probably see why I am wanting a new card. 
