On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 08:18:26AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: > The computer was built by NCIX Technologies about 1.5 years ago and > has given me very good service up to now, although it has always been > rather high strung. There is no onboard video on the motherboard and > only two card slots in use, one for the video card and one for the > RAID controller. The video card start-up problem began well after the > RAID card was installed, so I don't think it is the culprit.
Certainly shouldn't be. > I do have an old computer with a decent video card which I can try > trading out to see if the problem goes away, but I don't think it is a > PCIx16 card, so I can't actually test the slot. The boys who do my > computer maintenance for me tell me that it is a very busy little > computer. See http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/378/1004378/why-nvidia-chips-defective and the subsequent parts two and three of the article for a fairly comprehensive explanation of the Nvidia "parts defect" related to thermal issues. The very short version is that the Nvidia 8*** cards, among others, tend to fail if they stay hot (= in heavy use). So I'll bet you've got a dead-or-dying video card. (Which is what getting Error 10 in POST would tend to indicate as well.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
