monitoring heat

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Hello,

short question: is it possible to monitor the heat on a radeon 8500 card?
I am having the well-known problem that the vpu recover function has to
come into action a little too often (say: every two minutes) and I thought
it may be a heat problem.
 
yalu said:
Hello,

short question: is it possible to monitor the heat on a radeon 8500 card?
I am having the well-known problem that the vpu recover function has to
come into action a little too often (say: every two minutes) and I thought
it may be a heat problem.
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There's no built in thermal monitoring on the 8500 GPU. Check for correct
fan function and case temp/ airflow around the card. In my experience with
the 8500 128Mb, it would not take much more than 305-310Mhz on the GPU. At
stock clocks, it should never crash due to heat issues.
 
yalu said:
Hello,

short question: is it possible to monitor the heat on a radeon 8500 card?
I am having the well-known problem that the vpu recover function has to
come into action a little too often (say: every two minutes) and I thought
it may be a heat problem.
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Download everest from www.lavalys.com. It's sensor page might find a fintek
monitoring chip on the grpahics card.
 
First of One said:
What happens if you turn off VPU recover in the driver panels?
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While VPU may be useful to some I have never really liked it. Doesnt mean
its no good just that for me it caused more problems than it helped. It
always seemed TOO sensitive so now I just leave the thing off 24/7.
 
While VPU may be useful to some I have never really liked it. Doesnt mean
its no good just that for me it caused more problems than it helped. It
always seemed TOO sensitive so now I just leave the thing off 24/7.
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I think a lot of us do the same, Bratboy. VPU Recover definitely
seems to be one of those features that seem to be more of a hindrance
by causing crashes than a help by aiding recovery.

Patrick

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patrickp said:
I think a lot of us do the same, Bratboy. VPU Recover definitely
seems to be one of those features that seem to be more of a hindrance
by causing crashes than a help by aiding recovery.

Patrick
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It's smacks too much of a debugging tool. "Terribly sorry but our drivers
are crap. It would be helpful if we could monitor them and stop your PC
crashing before the useful info is lost"
 
There's no built in thermal monitoring on the 8500 GPU. Check for correct
fan function and case temp/ airflow around the card. In my experience with
the 8500 128Mb, it would not take much more than 305-310Mhz on the GPU. At
stock clocks, it should never crash due to heat issues.
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Case temperature is about 40°C, nothing in my system is overclocked. The
fan on the GPU is running also.
 
What happens if you turn off VPU recover in the driver panels?
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Then the system will just lock up instead of attempting to recover.

It also happened that I got a warning "vpu recover was unable to fully
recover bla bla, you have to reboot your computer". Games don't work after
I get such an error message, so rebooting is the only option.
 
It's smacks too much of a debugging tool. "Terribly sorry but our drivers
are crap. It would be helpful if we could monitor them and stop your PC
crashing before the useful info is lost"
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Do you think that the problem is caused by bugs in the driver, or a
problem with the card itself (hardware)?
 
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