Lmf
03-09-06, 04:32 PM
Hello everyone,
I am not shure if this is the right forum to post, but this appears to be OS-independent, so...
Soem half a year ago, my watercooling had a leak and some water was pilled onto the graphics card :-( Luckily enough, the card survived and didn't appear to loose on features or performance. Hovewer, after that time my temperature sensors constantly show the temperature of 127 degrees, which is impossible. Even more, after some month the readings increased to 255 degrees. I can still run 3D application without any performance loss and the driver gives no overheating warnings. Teh card is not throttling. Hell, I was even able to overclock it without no stability loss! All in all, I learned to ignore the readings, considering my sensor to be broken..
Hovewer, some time after that happened, new problems appeared. Somethimes, when Windows started, I noticed major slowdowns - the sound was played in batches, the mouse pointer jumpy, everything was slower and the harddrive also seemed to work "in jumps". After reload, this problems usually dissapeared and everything went back to normal. This occured on Windows XP(basicaly each start) and also on Windows XP 64-bit edition(but very seldom).
Today I installed the Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution and everything was lovely till I installed the nvidia drivers. When the X-server gets loaded with the "nvidia" driver instead of "nv", I see very similar slowdowns as the ones I had on the Windows system, but on regular base. I run some benchmarks and as result, the system seems to be slowed down by 50%, where such slowdowns happen like jumps. The display is clear, I run glxgears without any artifacts, but also the gears appear to "jump"(they seem to stop about every second). Everything is fine when I get back to "nv" module, but I need the acceleration :-(
I don't understand what could have coused it. If my card would be badly damaged, I should see artifacts, crashes, system instability, right? What would have caused the slowdowns? Should I simply get another card(but where is the guarranty that it won't behave similarily?).
Maybe someone could give me an advice...
I use the latest drivers for both linux and windows, my specs are
AMD 64 3000+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mainboard
MSI 6600GT
1GB GEIL RAM
A power supply from "be quiet!"(all voltages fairly stable, in -+3% range)
I removed teh watercooling the last week and returned to plain air-cooling.
P.S. Until recently, I also had funny problems with my SATA HDD, where the system won't boot occasionaly. After switching the SATA slot, the problem dissapeared. It used to happen about once per week and I was forced to cycle through the slots. Funnily enough, the non-working slot became working after about 10 minutes of waiting. The problem almost dissapeared after I updated the BIOS. Maybe my board is broken too :-/
I am not shure if this is the right forum to post, but this appears to be OS-independent, so...
Soem half a year ago, my watercooling had a leak and some water was pilled onto the graphics card :-( Luckily enough, the card survived and didn't appear to loose on features or performance. Hovewer, after that time my temperature sensors constantly show the temperature of 127 degrees, which is impossible. Even more, after some month the readings increased to 255 degrees. I can still run 3D application without any performance loss and the driver gives no overheating warnings. Teh card is not throttling. Hell, I was even able to overclock it without no stability loss! All in all, I learned to ignore the readings, considering my sensor to be broken..
Hovewer, some time after that happened, new problems appeared. Somethimes, when Windows started, I noticed major slowdowns - the sound was played in batches, the mouse pointer jumpy, everything was slower and the harddrive also seemed to work "in jumps". After reload, this problems usually dissapeared and everything went back to normal. This occured on Windows XP(basicaly each start) and also on Windows XP 64-bit edition(but very seldom).
Today I installed the Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution and everything was lovely till I installed the nvidia drivers. When the X-server gets loaded with the "nvidia" driver instead of "nv", I see very similar slowdowns as the ones I had on the Windows system, but on regular base. I run some benchmarks and as result, the system seems to be slowed down by 50%, where such slowdowns happen like jumps. The display is clear, I run glxgears without any artifacts, but also the gears appear to "jump"(they seem to stop about every second). Everything is fine when I get back to "nv" module, but I need the acceleration :-(
I don't understand what could have coused it. If my card would be badly damaged, I should see artifacts, crashes, system instability, right? What would have caused the slowdowns? Should I simply get another card(but where is the guarranty that it won't behave similarily?).
Maybe someone could give me an advice...
I use the latest drivers for both linux and windows, my specs are
AMD 64 3000+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mainboard
MSI 6600GT
1GB GEIL RAM
A power supply from "be quiet!"(all voltages fairly stable, in -+3% range)
I removed teh watercooling the last week and returned to plain air-cooling.
P.S. Until recently, I also had funny problems with my SATA HDD, where the system won't boot occasionaly. After switching the SATA slot, the problem dissapeared. It used to happen about once per week and I was forced to cycle through the slots. Funnily enough, the non-working slot became working after about 10 minutes of waiting. The problem almost dissapeared after I updated the BIOS. Maybe my board is broken too :-/