I cleaned up the fan and and the board using a fine bristle brush.  That got 
me about 15 minutes of run time with the box on it's side. Fan runs 
intermitently that way.  I think the card is toast.  I can get a Radeon 9600 
Pro from Geeks.  I plan to a new build in the near future so I prefer to go 
cheap on getting up and running again.

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Mayer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HD problem or video card?


As you have likely reasoned, this sounds like your video card is
overheating. You can try re-cleaning the video card fan using "canned
air" or, if possible, replace the fan. I do not think it is a HD issue
unless you have some other reason to question it.

Hopefully, the video card itself is still OK.

Tom

Optonline wrote:
> My desktop has a problem that is shutting it down as far as video is 
> concerned.  This is a home build (2003) on an ASUS P4P800 board with a 
> Radeon 9500 Pro video card.  It appeared to be functioning fine yesterday. 
> Today it started up fine but after sitting for about 1/2 an hour wouldn't 
> restart. I first thought it was just the usual sleep mode, but the mouse 
> was not showing any light and moving the mouse didn't wake anything up. 
> Neither did touching the keyboard.  I hit restart and it restarted, gave 
> me an error message about the ATI board overclocking failing (I don't 
> overclock anything), restarted and went to Windows, filled the desktop 
> icons and than lost the monitor after about 2 minutes.  The monitor said 
> it wasn't getting a signal.  I restarted again with a similar result. 
> Decided to open up the box, found it needed a cleaning of all the vents 
> etc. which I did including the CPU heat sink.  When I restarted again I 
> noticed the ATI fan wasn't working, I gave it a push and it ran but not 
> very fast.
>
> My questions:
> 1. Can this be a video card failure of some sort?  It is booting and 
> loading Windows, it just won't stay on.  It doesn't turn itself off just 
> seems to kill the video so I can't tell if the OS is still functioning.
>
> 2.  Could there be a HD failure?  If so how can I test for that?
>
> I don't have a spare video card but will see if I can borrow one tomorrow 
> or buy a cheap one.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Warasila
>

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