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Tony Mayer <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:20:48 -0700
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Donna -

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss possible heat problems.  The 9800's
run toasty-hot.  The stock heatsink/fan on the cards is barely able to
keep up.  If you get even a small amount of dust clogging up the heat
sink, it can easily overheat and cause reboots.  I ended up going to an
after-market solution for the video card fan/heatsink on my 9800.

Tony Mayer


   Donna Salinas wrote:
> I've had this problem once before, but I forget how to fix it. The system
> reboots in the middle of playing City of Heroes. Last week it was working
> just fine, but we had a power surege and I had to reformat my computer and
> now it has APG Apetureproblems and VPU Recovery problems.It doesn't
> overheat,but the settings must have went to default and I do not know the
> correct settings. It was working fine until I had to reformat.The card is
> Radeon 9800, 128 mb .OS is windows XP prof. And I have the correct drivers.
> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

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