[Klug-general] Kent Digest, Vol 273, Issue 6

[Michael E. Rentell]

Thanks for that Gavin. I am sure I have most of that detail on the 
original documentation you supplied. But that is at the bottom of a 
drawer somewhere.

As perhaps you saw from the KLUG exchange, I was unaware that the 512Mb 
graphics card Inno3d GeForce 9400 card that I purchased would run better 
on a separate power lead. I was fairly certain that the main power 
supply included would be sufficient.

The graphics card didn't come with any form of written instructions 
(probably a cheap Chinese generic type) but there was an Nvidia CD 
driver which I have used for the Vista partition but it still glitches.

Today I have found a line in very tiny print on the inside cover of the 
nvidia driver CD envelope which says: Some cards require supplementary 
power and the connector is located at the top-right hand corner of the card.

I got that CD out of its box because it occurred to me that there would 
be full installations instructions on a pdf on it.

Correct!

So I will read that carefully and then see what I can do about extra 
power. If I get baffled I will come back to you.

Thanks for the advice.

MikeR



On 14/05/10 16:43, Gavin Coles wrote:
> On 14/05/10 10:59, kent-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
>   >  Message: 4
>   >  Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 10:15:48 +0100
>   >  From: "Michael E. Rentell"<michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>
>   >  Subject: [Klug-general] Graphics card glitches
>   >  To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>   >  Message-ID:<4BED14C4.5030508 at ntlworld.com>
>   >  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>   >
>   >  G'mornin' all,
>   >
>   >  Two or three years ago our illustrious colleague from Indie IT in
>   >  Birchington provided me with a bespoke sooper dooper desktop compooter
>   >  which has served me very well and still does. About a month ago the
>   >  graphics card blew (NVIDIA 256Mb - make unknown).
>   >
> Hi Michael,
>
> Sorry to hear you're having hardware issues, below is the original
> specifictions for the system:
>
> 1 x CPU Cooling Fan&  Heatsink - Arctic Cooling (AC-FRZ-64P) Freezer64
> Pro with Heat pipe cooling
> 1 x Graphics Card - Leadtek 7200GS 256MB DDR2 DVI VGA TVO PCI-E
> 1 x DVD-RW Optical Drive - LG GSA-H62NBAL 18X SATA DVD±RW/DL/RAM in
> Black (Bare Drive OEM)
> 4 x Memory - Crucial 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400/800MHz CL4-4-4-12 Ballistix 2.2V
> SLI Ready
> 1 x Mouse - Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse USB/PS/2 in Black (Retail boxed)
> 1 x Keyboard - Microsoft Black Wired PS/2 Keyboard 500 (Retail Boxed)
> 1 x Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 2.6GHz -L2 2MB (2 x
> 1MB) Cache (Retail Boxed)
> 1 x Motherboard - Asus M2N-E SLI Nvidia nForce 500 SLI MCP Socket AM2
> 8channel audio ATX Motherboard (Retail Boxed)
> 1 x System Enclosure - Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Mid Tower Case
> with 500W EarthWatts Power Supply
>
> The PSU should be more than adequate to power your system even with the
> new graphics card. If needed I can test the PSU and run a full hardware
> test on the rest of the hardware using Eurosoft PCCheck.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin Coles
>
>
>
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