Happy camper :)

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I'd had my 9800 pro for a couple of month's up to now, nothing but crashes
all the time. Up 20 times of reboots to get it
going.....................until now :)

I banged on an old p111(3 times the size of orig) fan i had laying around,
sucker has not crashed since and it boots first time everytime. :)

FYI: mines a powercolor, before u throw it, change the fan

cheers
rodent
 
I'd had my 9800 pro for a couple of month's up to now, nothing but crashes
all the time. Up 20 times of reboots to get it
going.....................until now :)
I banged on an old p111(3 times the size of orig) fan i had laying around,
sucker has not crashed since and it boots first time everytime. :)
FYI: mines a powercolor, before u throw it, change the fan
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I have Powercolor 9800Pro 128Mb, it's overclocked and has never crashed!

Seems u may have a bad card.
 
9800 said:
I have Powercolor 9800Pro 128Mb, it's overclocked and has never crashed!

Seems u may have a bad card.
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Or a case that needs better ventilation, or a marginal power supply, or a
misconfigured bios, or ...
 
the guys says it runs perfectly ..... new fan seated and all is well. I agree it most likely a case vent problem, but bios or PSU,
why would you think that?
 
JAD said:
the guys says it runs perfectly ..... new fan seated and all is well. I
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agree it most likely a case vent problem, but bios or PSU,
why would you think that?
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As a fan solved it, we know heat was part of the problem. But we don't know
what caused the basic instability that was causing it to fail to work
without multiple reboots. If it's strictly an overheated card, I can't see
why it would take 20 reboots to get it working again.

Too much voltage in the bios could make it overheat, and any number of
settings from memory to cpu could cause freezes that could have been blamed
on the card. Likewise a faulty power supply can cause freezes and require
multiple reboots.

Heat is the easiest thing to blame and probably the primary cause, but it's
not the only possibility. That's why troubleshooting PC problems
long-distance in a newsgroup is always a hit-or-miss, trial-and-error
proposition.
 
I'd had my 9800 pro for a couple of month's up to now, nothing but crashes
all the time. Up 20 times of reboots to get it
going.....................until now :)

I banged on an old p111(3 times the size of orig) fan i had laying around,
sucker has not crashed since and it boots first time everytime. :)

FYI: mines a powercolor, before u throw it, change the fan

cheers
rodent
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You should RMA the card while you still can. It should not do this. it is a
bad card.

-Kent
 
Its to late, didn't he void the warrenty by modding the fan? but who
carers, i flashed my bios on the 2nd day i owned my card...
 
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