What do you make of this?

olliestottleolliestottle
edited June 2004 in Hardware
Im surfing the net, playing a game, DLing music, etc... and all of a sudden my monitor turns black, the light on the monitor goes yellow. My guess is my graphics card is over heating. I have an ATI 9700 pro running at stock speed. Today i received my new cooling parts, i got a SLK-947 which made my CPU temps drop from 66 degrees to 44. w00t. Thats all fine and dandy but my new graphics fan doesnt seem to be helping my over heating issues. I bought a iCEBERQ 4 Premium VGA Cooling Kit. I put the fan on with artic silver (for CPU and GPU), put on the 4 ram heatsinks that came included and still OVER HEATING ISSUES! I touch the 9700 where the fan is and its not THAT hot, but the base is too hot to touch so i know its the graphics card. And also, sometimes my computer recovers and i get my image back with some funky colors here and there, and the notorious microsoft SEND ERROR REPORT pops up telling me its my GPU. Ok i have blabbed long enough, i better submit before my comp quits again. Ideas anyone?

Comments

  • NeoFXNeoFX Utah, US of A
    edited June 2004
    hmm... I don't know how good those iceberq kits are... but I didn't think they were originally made to go on the higher end cards. I may be wrong... but either way you're having overheating issues. May I suggest one of those Zalman heatpipe + fan coolers? Don't remember the exact name but from what I hear they work (and look) really good. The fan is optional as well, but since it's Zalman it's probably fairly quiet.
  • verselloversello New
    edited June 2004
    NeoFX wrote:
    hmm... I don't know how good those iceberq kits are... but I didn't think they were originally made to go on the higher end cards. I may be wrong... but either way you're having overheating issues. May I suggest one of those Zalman heatpipe + fan coolers? Don't remember the exact name but from what I hear they work (and look) really good. The fan is optional as well, but since it's Zalman it's probably fairly quiet.

    Just to add I bought the optional zalman fan for the heatpipe. You can run it on two modes - high (very loud) and low (near silent).
  • Nive11enNive11en Europe
    edited June 2004
    You've posted here too: http://www.icronticforums.com/showthread.php?t=4439
    I've replied there.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    I have the same thing you bought for my R9700 Pro. Works great! Did you remember to remove the shim around the GPU? If you didn't, it isn't making contact with the GPU and that's VERY bad, as I'm sure you know.
  • olliestottleolliestottle
    edited June 2004
    Ok, my 2nd attempt is also a failure lol. This time i got funky colors all over the screen. I didnt run any games or programs, but the card was cool lol. Seeing how i couldnt really make out what was on the screen, i took the card out and took the heatsink off. There was paste covering the whole square and im not talking about the die lol. Cleaned the card up, so were back to square one again, its 12 at night and im going to make a trip to my friends for some paste. w00t.
  • olliestottleolliestottle
    edited June 2004
    The thing is, i have had this card since last summer, the problem started occuring December of 2k3. The occurance was rare and i didnt think anything of it because it was like once a couple of weeks. Now it happens couple times a day. Just FYI.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Any chance you have mistakenly uped the voltage to the AGP in the Bios?
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    olliestottle wrote:
    The thing is, i have had this card since last summer, the problem started occuring December of 2k3. The occurance was rare and i didnt think anything of it because it was like once a couple of weeks. Now it happens couple times a day. Just FYI.

    had exactly the same problem of you, problem went away when i got my new watercooling system installed. just fyi
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