nVidia problems

[Knapp]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:26 AM, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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I have not played with it in some time but my nvidia chip had a
program for checking the heat. I can't remember if I got it from the
depository or from nvidia web site but it does exist for linux at
least for my older chip.


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