Hi
I got a Asus Geforce3 TI500 which has developed some problems. Its nearly 3 years old, and for 2 years it has been running with a Zalman fanless heat-pipe cooler. In may I got a new motherboard and PSU, and until this week there has been no problems with the graphics card. But tuesday the graphics suddenly locked up in windows. Kind of a weird lockup, though. The mouse pointer was drawn and updated as I moved it. Also the cd I was burning, got completed during the lockup. However none of the graphics icons responded when I clicked them. Eventually I used hotkeys to reboot the system.
Now this is what the BIOS looked like, after the reset
When windows loaded again, it didn't show the usually graphics. Instead it showed a complete screenshot of what was on the screen before the reset. Weird.
Anyway, I then turned the machine off, and removed the side panel, figuring that it had overheated. When I started windows it was normal. So I fired up SmartDoctor and saw that the GPU was at 75C and the graphics memory was at 60C. The GPU reading was pretty much what it use too, but I can't remember that the graphics memory has been this high.
It then ran fine until thursday, where the same thing happened all over. I had played 45 mins of Enemy Territory, and then when into windows. And after 10 mins it happened. I pulled the graphics card out and had a look at the cooler on the memory chip, they looked fine and so did the main cooler. So I put it back in, and the machine ran ok again.
Then friday, the same thing happended after the machine had run for an hour (in regular windows).
I have tried another TNT M64 in the machine and it has worked flawlessly for 4+ hours. And currently I'm using a Voodoo3 2000 which has run without issues since friday.
Does anybody have any idea whats wrong with the GF3 card? And most importantly, how to fix it?
I got a Asus Geforce3 TI500 which has developed some problems. Its nearly 3 years old, and for 2 years it has been running with a Zalman fanless heat-pipe cooler. In may I got a new motherboard and PSU, and until this week there has been no problems with the graphics card. But tuesday the graphics suddenly locked up in windows. Kind of a weird lockup, though. The mouse pointer was drawn and updated as I moved it. Also the cd I was burning, got completed during the lockup. However none of the graphics icons responded when I clicked them. Eventually I used hotkeys to reboot the system.
Now this is what the BIOS looked like, after the reset
When windows loaded again, it didn't show the usually graphics. Instead it showed a complete screenshot of what was on the screen before the reset. Weird.
Anyway, I then turned the machine off, and removed the side panel, figuring that it had overheated. When I started windows it was normal. So I fired up SmartDoctor and saw that the GPU was at 75C and the graphics memory was at 60C. The GPU reading was pretty much what it use too, but I can't remember that the graphics memory has been this high.
It then ran fine until thursday, where the same thing happened all over. I had played 45 mins of Enemy Territory, and then when into windows. And after 10 mins it happened. I pulled the graphics card out and had a look at the cooler on the memory chip, they looked fine and so did the main cooler. So I put it back in, and the machine ran ok again.
Then friday, the same thing happended after the machine had run for an hour (in regular windows).
I have tried another TNT M64 in the machine and it has worked flawlessly for 4+ hours. And currently I'm using a Voodoo3 2000 which has run without issues since friday.
Does anybody have any idea whats wrong with the GF3 card? And most importantly, how to fix it?
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