Video Problems In Xp

[Shiromagius]

I am having problems with my video card. I have a Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 AGP video card and after having some driver issues, I can successfully load XP normally now. However, everytime I move my mouse, it seems to leave traces of garble behind it. They are like pixels that are not the same color as their buddies around them. Like red pixels appear on light blue or white colors... neon green pixels appear on normal green background. I can however click the show desktop button on quick launch and all the garble disappears from the desktop background (taskbar garble remains). Anyway, its damn annoying and I was wondoring how I can fix it. I got the latest official drivers at Nvidia (29.42). Oh yes, one other thing. When I boot into safe mode, I do not encounter any of these problems.

Another one of my concerns, which I am sure is related... is the temperature of my system. In my bios it says that my CPU is running at 65C!!!! I have no idea WHY it is running so high. I have my CPU in place as normal, with a big heatsink and fan on top of it, and I put lots of CPU grease between the CPU and heatsink and it is still running high. I only have a duron 850 so it shouldnt be running that hot. My fan on my heat sink is spinning and supposively doing its job, but I am at a loss as to why it is so high. Any thoughts?



Last edited by Shiromagius at Aug 2 2002, 11:02 PM

[Shiromagius]

Well I fixed my video card problem. Apparently there was a bad sauder joint on the memory section of the card. I took it back and replaced it. The new card works as it should. However my heat problems still remain

[Big POPPA Pump]

To begin with lots of thermal sink between the cpu and the heatsink is not going to help you reduce your cpu temperature. Rather you are increasing the chances of your cpu getting even more hotter. The more thicker the layer of thermal paste between your cpu and heatsink, the hotter your cpu is going to get.
The thermal paste applied between your cpu and heatsink should be a wafer thin layer. Apply the thermalpaste on your heatsink and using some plastic card smear it evenly over the heatsink base. Once it is evenly spread all over the sink, take some kind of non-static paper like lens-cleaner (you can get them at any store for a buck) and remove all the extra grease from the heatsink. The ending result should be such that the themal paste looks like a haze on your heatsink. Then take a miniscule amount of thermal paste, like a small grain of rice and put it on your cpu. And that is all the thermal paste you need!!!! Hope that helps you.

Secondly what kind of heatsink are you using. Is the fan on the heatsink blowing on the heatsink or away from the sink. Do you have sufficient and air flow in and out of your case. If you airflow is incorrect, this also contributes towards very high temperatures.

I have an Athlon XP 2100 with an slk-800 all copper heatsink with a vantec tornado 80mm fan blowing air on the heatsink. Got 1 80 mm fan in the front pulling in air. I modded my case and added two 80mm fans on the side of the case pulling in air and blowing directly on the cpu. Got 2 more additional 80mmm fans blowing out air from the back. And finally got a 120mm fan on the top of the case blowing out air from the case. The resulting temperature from all this -

--> Cpu Idle 28C, System 29C
--> Full load CPU - 35C, System 34C

[Jessica]

yeah too much is bad, i hear.
its not all 'bigger the blob, better the job'


...in an unrelated note..there's 2 quick reply boxes now

[just_do_IT]

Quote:

Originally posted by deadman@Aug 3 2002, 10:42 PM
And finally got a 120mm fan on the top of the case blowing out air from the case. The resulting temperature from all this -

--> Cpu Idle 28C, System 29C
--> Full load CPU - 35C, System 34C

WOW!!!! Are you certain about that temp?

[Big POPPA Pump]

It's true! Oh Yeah! It's true!!!

Checked it with 4 different programs. MBM, Soyo hardware monitor, Vcool and through the Bios settings. Get the same result every time!

[HotRod]

I Believe the temps. I'm running dual 1.2 on MSI MB and running 34 C and 42 C under load. Still haven't figured out why such a big differance in CPU temp, but all 3 of my dual machines have been this way. Going to try to get temps down some more, my 533 celies used to run 82 F. Want to see if I can get these lower.