Weird Power Mgmt issue 1230
No fan on the video card; just a huge honking heat sink. But I think youre in the right area.. I have noticed that the fan on the power supply is as dead as a hunk of wood.. Ive been running the pc with the cover off while Ive been working on this potential video card switch from the lowly Nvidia Vanta it came with in 2001, to this new GeForce FX5200 I just received that we're talking about, and I have yet to find the 250 watt powersupply's fan spinning.. IT must have worked once, because theres alot of dust around it which you get with spinning fans.
Thanks William.. Never installed a powersupply before, so it was crucial to me that whatever I got was a direct replacement for my Gateway powersupply. I...
Now, why does this not hurt the Vanta, but cause the FX5200 to shut the monitor down after 1, 2, or 3, or some other random number of hours of use? Could it be because the demand of the Vanta card, with just 16mb on board, is so low that it doesnt matter? As I said, Ive left the top off the pc, and had the open side facing the window where it can get some good cooling, and pulled out 2 unused cards from PCI slots, but it still will shut the monitor into pwr saving mode, right in the middle of my typing a sentence, or mousing around, to be reawakened ONLY by a hard reboot.
When I checked with gateway, this was one of the cards they said would work on my amd motherboard. So, could it be this powersupply fan?
and you can get a for $399 when they run the $100 off promotions as they often do so the repair is a...
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