nVidia and Hardy and everything

[Karl Larsen]

Ari Torhamo wrote:
> la, 2008-04-19 kello 16:55 -0600, Karl Larsen kirjoitti:
>
>   
>>     Now I have all the covers off my computer. I am wondering now if the 
>> bad nVidia problem is in fact just a heating problem? There is a heat 
>> sink on the board that is for the video hardware.
>>     
>
> Normally a motherboard overheats so much that there are noticeable
> symptoms only if the chassis fan(s) don't work, motherboard chipset fan
> doesn't work, or there's much dust around the fan (and the heatsink that
> it's attached to) that causes overheating (your motherboard may only
> have a heatsink without the fan).  A loose heatsink may also be a
> reason. 
>
> Of course, if you add a lot of hot running hardware to a badly
> ventilated chassis, you may see symptoms of overheating anyway. Not so
> easily though.
>
> If you have an embedded graphics card on your motherboard, the above
> applies to it too.
>
> It's good to remember that when the components run cool, they last
> longer - even when there are no symptoms of overheating present. And you
> shouldn't wait for the symptoms - in fact, a component is overheating
> when the temperature exeeds the manufacturers specifications - see the
> manual or the manufacturers web site. Even the specified maximal
> temperatures are often high, and you would do better to keep the
> components even cooler.
>
> Ari Torhamo
>
>
>
>   
    Yes Ari, it appears to be motherboard heating. I have a very small 
black computer box and I like that. But it was causing my nVidia problem 
for sure because the motherboard was getting too hot, how ever hot that 
is. This caused the crashes.

    I now have the covers off the box and it is still cool here. Now I 
can't make the system crash. It worked just great with Hardy. I have 
just re-loaded the good nVidia driver for 7.10. I am sure now it will be 
stable and look a lot better than the "nv" I am now using.

Karl


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