Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 12:37 pm
OK but i haven't seen any indications of malfunction of the graphics card.
at the time when the fan died (and the GPU overheated) i would see various artefacts on the screen (diagonal lines). however i think it was the monitor's fault
(as it were, i actually thought the monitor was at fault and ordered the service from the company, only when the tech came i noticed that the fan on the card had crapped out. so they took the compuer, did to the card what you saw and did some "adjusting" to the screen, the diagonal lines were gone. i still think it was the monitor.)
my point - i would've imagined that if the GPU is getting too hot i'd see some visual indications of that before a computer crash! and there have been no such.
incidentally, i'm in trouble! i've more or less made up my mind to buy the P160, and today discovered that there's a P180 about to be released in the very near future! now i need to wait and see what it's like when it comes, reviews etc. <sigh>
(BTW this : is literally my wife's response when i had told her of this "new compication" )
at the time when the fan died (and the GPU overheated) i would see various artefacts on the screen (diagonal lines). however i think it was the monitor's fault
(as it were, i actually thought the monitor was at fault and ordered the service from the company, only when the tech came i noticed that the fan on the card had crapped out. so they took the compuer, did to the card what you saw and did some "adjusting" to the screen, the diagonal lines were gone. i still think it was the monitor.)
my point - i would've imagined that if the GPU is getting too hot i'd see some visual indications of that before a computer crash! and there have been no such.
incidentally, i'm in trouble! i've more or less made up my mind to buy the P160, and today discovered that there's a P180 about to be released in the very near future! now i need to wait and see what it's like when it comes, reviews etc. <sigh>
(BTW this : is literally my wife's response when i had told her of this "new compication" )