On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:05 pm, someone claiming to be Ted Ozolins wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > >>I still have problems. I've also got the feeling that my video card may > >> be going bonkers on me. When I switch to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), I'm > >> now getting white spots on a portion of my screen. I also get ghosts > >> when dragging icons around the desktop. > > > >Turn off box, remove cover, unplug video card, run pencil eraser across > > card edge connectors, plug card back in, close cover and reboot box. test > > for video anomalies... > > > >Go get beer... > > > > > If your video card has a large hesatsink (or any heat-sink) get it away or > get other cards away from it. (HEAT!) Depending where your AGP slot is of > course. On one of my boxes the AGP is off to one side away from the pci > slots, The problem box has the AGP slot right up against the pci slots > which caused heat problems and was fixed by moving pci gards away from > the agp slot. If your CPU has been running too hot for too long and now > is showing up on video is a very bad sign. Do these spots show up right > after powering up as well, or does this happen after your system has been > up for a while?
X crashed right away after a cold reboot (after replacing RAM). I don't think it's heat, but rather fonts. Removing AbiSuite true type fonts from my fontpath solved that problem (at least it seems to -- my wife used the system today without any ill effects). I still think the card is failing, though, so I bought a GeForce2 card today (Jaton, I'm not real sure about its quality, but the local mom & pop computer store said it should be fine) to test out as a replacment. I *still* have problems with large compiles breaking (particularly rebuilding Xfree86 from SRPM). I'm currently suspecting either heat, or CPU. I got a 1G Duron processor this morning and a nice Thermaltake CPU fan/heatsink with a 7000 RPM fan. Sometime in the next couple of days I'll be swapping out the processor and testing again. The current Mobo/CPU is not without its tainted history. When it was fairly new, the CPU fan failed and the board ran *very* hot for a couple days (it wasn't on 100% of the time, probly around 25%). He recalls being surprised that the CPU wasn't fried. This was about 2 years ago. I think it's finally crapped out on me... Tim -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, Gnome 2.x, Xfree86 4.2.0 7:00am up 8:33, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
