nVidia problems

[David Fox]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe Karl has an on-board Nvidia chip with a heatsink which isn't
> properly attached, thus if overheats when pushed into anything other
> than plain 2d work and causes him grief.

I might be in the same boat. I have a 6100 embedded nvidia (ECS
mainboard) that I've had since May. On hotter days, or when doing 3d
work (for instance Stellarium run more than a couple of minutes brings
temperature up - according to acpi -V to near-critical levels causing
shutdowns) or when doing other intensive stuff it comes real close to
overheating and/or reaching critical temperature - 72 degrees C -
which is *very* hot.

But I lack a tool to determine what the nvidia chip temperature is.
There was (or is) a mini kde app that I tried initially, but I could
not get any values at all out of it.

And I'm not sure if the 3d stuff in and of itself is heating up the
graphics chip, or the acpi temperature (I gather that is CPU
temperature). There is a rather large fan & heat sink installed on the
CPU. But my guess is I may need further cooling.