One monitor is plugged in via the DVI port and the other via
HDMI. I think Austin was right that heat may be the problem. I
put a small fan in the case so it blows directly on the video
card. Psensor show the card being around 20°C cooler with the fan
than without. Thanks Austin. and everyone else who responded.
Last time I had a video card lose a fan, the whole system would go into shutdown, so not sure if it's *only* just cooling, but sounds like the card itself, such as the actual output chips are dying/bad.
Are you using any display adapters? My current system with a Nvidia 1070 card I use 3x DisplayPort to HDMI adapters, and after a week or two of uptime, I'll wake up the displays in the morning for work, and randomly a display won't get signal. I have to reset the stupid adapter to make it work again. Really annoying, but could be something similar if you are using active adapters on the outputs too.
-mb
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:21 AM Jim <azanorak@gmail.com> wrote:
---------------------------------------------------There's a fan built into the side of the case. I could take the side out of the case and put a small fan in there aimed at the video card. Right now Psensor says the video card is at 55°C, but I just started the machine a few minutes ago. After it warms up, the card stays around 80°C. Still, if something in the card is going bad, it may act up at lower temperatures than it should. Also it can't hurt to cool it down.
On 8/26/19 7:19 AM, Austin Godber wrote:
Anecdotally speaking, nearly all of my electronics have been freaking out due to the heat, this includes:
* google chromecast not playing* roku sound going out periodically* sonos bridge needing restarting daily* VR laptop only works if I put a box fan in front of it
You problems sound like they could be heat related. If you have a box fan of some sort and you can improve airflow in your machine, you might be able to test it. Or maybe your case could be better ventilated.
Austin
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:22 PM Jim <azanorak@gmail.com> wrote:
---------------------------------------------------I had thought that it might be getting old, but I only bought the video card new 3 years ago. How long should one last? Psensor shows the temperature of the card at 77°C, but the specs show the maximum allowed temperature is 102°C. It just started doing this a few days ago. I guess I could go into my parts box and find another video card to put in there until I get a chance to buy a new one.
thanks
On 8/25/19 10:13 PM, Harold Hartley wrote:
I might mean that the hardware on the video card may be getting a little to warm or wearing out. Something to think about if it’s a dinosaur.
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, at 21:56, Jim wrote:
I have a dinosaur running Kubuntu 18.04 with a Gigabyte P35-DS3L
motherboard and an Intel Core 2 duo E6850 CPU and 8GB RAM. For a video
card, I have a GeForce GT 520. A few days ago it started acting up.
Now, at random, it acts as if the video card shuts off. Both monitors
give a no signal message. However, the software I had running continues
running. I know this because the dinosaur still plays the audio. The
keyboard doesn't respond. crtl+alt+backspace doesn't work. I can ssh
into it, but it won't reboot. The only thing I can do to recover is to
hold down the power switch until it shuts off, then turn it on again.
Any idea what this might be?
thanks
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