The best way to solve the heat problem may be an additional slot fan, place
it under video card, and remember, never ever use PCI slot 1 if you have a
AGP card, and if you have a AGP Pro card, never ever use PCI 1 & 2, you need
some space to let the heat go away. (for every machine I build, I place the
USB/COM2 adapter to PCI 1, so that user will have no chance to use PCI1 or
maybe both PCI1&2 <if ASUS USB adapter> without moving stuff around. well,
most users don't).

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 6:31 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Overheating Asus G-Force Video Card??


> Hello to all,
>
> My son (a gamer!) is having a problem with freezes and his monitor display
> when playing Quake III, Halflife, Deltaforce Land Warrior, etc.....  He is
> concerned that it may be his Asus V6600 G-Force SGRAM video card.  His
system
> includes an Asus K7M MOBO,  650 Athlon cpu, 128 SDRAM, Asus V6600 G-Force
> SGRAM video card (approx 9 months old), US Robotics 56K modem, Sound
Blaster
> Live soundcard, Linksys 10/100 NIC, 40x Memorex CD rom, Samsung 6x DVD,
> 8x4x32 HP CD burner, running Windows 98 first edition on a home network
(his
> is NOT the server) running Winproxy (with DSL).  He has the most current
BIOS
> and driver updates for his MOBO and video card, but has already tried
various
> combinations of previous drivers with the same results of freezes, etc.
His
> problem is that he freezes approx. 5 min into a game (even using the
lowest
> settings in the game) and continues periodically after that.  After a
reboot,
> he sometimes gets a green spectrum across the top of his desktop and the
temp
> of the card reads at 175 when it should only be about 149.  He knows its
> overheating, but can't figure out why.  He runs Smart Doctor all the time,
> which is apparently suppose to keep the card from overheating, but still,
it
> overheats and freezes.  Without Smart Doctor running, it also overheats
and
> freezes.  He has written Asus twice for technical support, but has yet to
get
> a reply.  Since they don't have a USA or Canandian support location, we
have
> not yet tried to call for support.  Any advice or suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.  As a note, he tells me that he had occasional
freezes
> when he first installed the card last March, but after he starting running
> Smart Doctor, the freezes stopped until a couple of months ago and have
been
> getting more frequent.  Also, he sometimes gets the illegal operation
> message.

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