Re: Weird Power Mgmt issue

No fan on the video card; just a huge honking heat sink. But I think youre
in the right area.. I have noticed that the fan on the power supply is as
dead as a hunk of wood.. Ive been running the pc with the cover off while
Ive been working on this potential video card switch from the lowly Nvidia
Vanta it came with in 2001, to this new GeForce FX5200 I just received that
we're talking about, and I have yet to find the 250 watt powersupply's fan
spinning.. IT must have worked once, because theres alot of dust around it
which you get with spinning fans.

Now, why does this not hurt the Vanta, but cause the FX5200 to shut the
monitor down after 1, 2, or 3, or some other random number of hours of use?
Could it be because the demand of the Vanta card, with just 16mb on board,
is so low that it doesnt matter? As I said, Ive left the top off the pc,
and had the open side facing the window where it can get some good cooling,
and pulled out 2 unused cards from PCI slots, but it still will shut the
monitor into pwr saving mode, right in the middle of my typing a sentence,
or mousing around, to be reawakened ONLY by a hard reboot.

When I checked with gateway, this was one of the cards they said would work
on my amd motherboard. So, could it be this powersupply fan?

Paul

"William P.N. Smith" <news05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:coosn1dfehaic2k7n070bpvcvtbonttvnh@xxxxxxxxxx
> "Boostm3" <elliott.paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >bring it out of it by mousing, or keying the keyboard.. I have to unplug
> >the computer, and reboot.. ie, it freezes up, with the power light on the
> >monitor on Amber.
>
> Sounds like a hardware problem with the [new?] video card.
>
> >Could it be that the new video card is locking up the motherboard? Oy..
i
> >sure hope not.. it works fine for about a half hour or so.
>
> Is there a fan on the video card, and is it spinning?


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