On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Ian Armstrong wrote:
> On Saturday 12 Jan 2008, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > I've got a PVR-350 and after its been running a while, but always in the
> > afternoon, not the morning, it starts showing rectangular blocks of
> > rubbish in the video stream.
> > We've looked at the aerial, the signal amplifier and the rest of the
> > input. No troubles there with an alternate card at the same time.
> > It is midsummer here, and that means HOT, but the house if not overhot.
> > Restarting the computer seems to be the only way to reset the card and it
> > then immediately is fine.
> > Can users suggest any other things to look at?
> > if someone needs a screenshot, I'll to to sort one out
> >
> From what I've seen, this is often caused when the card starts to
> overheat. If
>
> possible try not to place it too close to any other cards.
>
> Although my case temperature was okay, I still had to fit a fan to keep the
> air moving over the card to solve the problem.
Thanks for this.
Mine is fitted inside an S-presso box so I cannot move it away from the nvidia
card nor add any more fans.
The fan speed is adjusted according to the cpu temp. A temporary fixit could
be to shut down the box and restart it on the motherboard clock.
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