Any program to measure vid card temps

[PointlesS]

 

[PointlesS]

crap...I acidently hit enter lol...anyways
lately...my computer has been crashing...but I moved it from my basement (which is usually cold unless heat is on) to upstairs where it's much warmer...I've removed the case cover...but it still crashes....I think it's a heat problem....what's a good program to measure video card temps? or is there one? also my cpu temps are high 40's....low 50's...and I've tried all sorts of drivers...


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Athlon 1.2 ghz w/266 mhz bus
256 megs of PC-133 ram crucial
ECS K7S5A motherboard
ATI Radeon 8500 (oem...250/250)
win 2k

 

[AA0]

what do you mean lately?

If you have a OEM radeon, then I doubt its a heat thing, since they can go up to 300 clock speed. I'd bet your problem is more ECS related.

 

[MrDudeMan]

why would you think it was the video card? if anything it would be the motherboard or the CPU causing it to crap out


just install a few cooling fans, or move it back downstairs

easy enough

 

[PointlesS]

lately meaning when I first got my system up and running it was working great with no problems....now it crashes a lot...I've heard a lot of ecs boards having a problem with bad power supplies...and I just played serious sam:the second encounter for a little bit and I monitored my temps and they were at 44-45 degrees C...what's weird though...is that if I leave my computer idle for awhile...it'll take longer to crash...and when it finally does crash...it doesn't take as long to crash when I start the game right up again...this is what leaves me to think it's a heat problem...and when I put my fingers on my radeon's memory chips...they seem warm...not burning hot...but warm...I don't know though...but now I think it's a power supply problem...I'm running the power supply that came with my Enlight 7327 case...300w

 

[PointlesS]

actually now that I think of it...I think it may be power supply related...I started up my computer and it gave me an error at bootup saying something like...memory count is wrong or something...and I had to go into the bios and reenter all my bios settings...including cpu multiplier...ram settings...cmos information...also for some reason my monitor's screen position is resetted...so I have to go back and change it's position and make it bigger...etc...

 

[PointlesS]

*bump* any suggestions?