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  • Hmmm, it seems heat was the problem

    I had to change a modem in my machine last night, and I figured I might try flowing a tad more air over my G400. I was using one of those little low profile 486 fans, and I had a bigger fan (looks to be off of a Pentium, or possibly Socket 370 heatsink, not too sure where I got it). I just ziptied it on for the time being, wasn't planning on it being permanent.
    Fired up the Freespace 2 demo and played for almost 2 hours without any problems or visual artifacts. Played Everquest with no hassles. Both were causing problems before. All seems to be good.
    My card is not overclocked, so I can assume two things:
    1-OEM cards should be shipped with an adequate fan. Perhaps mine is just a substandard card, but I suspect there are others out there.
    2-Intel's fan shroud on slot 1 Cels stinks. It exhausts hot air directly onto the AGP card. I will be looking into this tonite.
    Ah, who am I kidding? I'm playing Mechwarrior 3 (sans artifacts) tonite

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    Hey DarkSyd,

    I have had this problem with both G200 and G400. It's probably your Obsidian card sitting under the G400 generating enough heat to overheat your G400.

    Paul

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    • #3
      Glad to hear you are in business. Always try to put a card that runs coolest next to the vid card and yes, the retail Celeron fan ducts a jet of hot air out the left side vent straight onto the display card. I have fitted a Tennmax Twin Cooler (does not fit a PPGA slocket model) which does not have this problem. As a work around, tape a 486 fan between the Celeron and the vid card blowing at the Celeron to deflect the heat back up to the power supply extractor fan.
      Cheers
      Brent

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      • #4
        Yeah, that Obsidian could double as a nifty space heater. They're spaced about as far apart as I can get'em, so I guess there's not a whole lot more I can do. As I said before tho, things seem to be running OK now, and I am going to try to redirect that warm air off of the CPU.

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        --My Stuff
        Cel266@448,Asus P2B 1009 bios,128MB,16MB G400 (w/ augmented ventilation),Quantum Obsidian,Panasonic 17" S70,MX300,Fujitsu 5.25GB,Dlink 530CT+, 1 grey Cat, 1 orange Cat (currently MIA)


        Games Box
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        Windows 2000Pro, ASUS A7Pro, Duron 750@950, 192MB Micron PC133, OEM Radeon DDR, 15gb Quantum Fireball+ LM, Fujitsu 5.25gb, Pioneer 32x slot load CDROM, SB Live! Value, LinkSys LNE100, Altec Lansing ACS45.2, Samsung Syncmaster 955DF, Sycom 300va UPS

        Video Box
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        Windows 2000Pro, PIII700 on ASUS CUBX, 256mb Micron PC133, Vanilla G400/32 (PD5.14), Hauppage WinTV-DBX, LinkSys LNE100, 8.4gb Maxtor HD, 40gb 7200 Western Digital, Diamond Fireport 40 SCSI, Pioneer 32x SCSI Slot load CDROM, Pioneer 10x Slot load DVD, Yamaha 4416s burner, MX300, Panasonic Panasync S70

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        Jinx the Grey Thundercat, Mischa (Shilsner?)(still MIA)

        ...currently working on the world's first C64 based parallel computing project

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