My sister was saying to me that her monitor kept on shutting off and she had to restart, it was happening in games and sometimes idling. At first I thought maybe it was the power options, thus I made sure that it was on high performance and not switching off after 10mins. Also hard drive never to power off. So far so good it was working fine while idling, but when she told me that it started to beep at her and the monitor was again going offline during gaming, this was pointing to overheating. Used rivatuner on her old graphics card x1950 and the temp was hitting 98.6C and rising within 5mins of playing team fortress. This was with a fan speed of 92% as before it was stuck at 65% so it must've risen far higher than 98.6C before, possibly well into the 100c's!
Took the computer apart and was met with A LOT of dust, the cpu heatsink was covered and the gpu heatsink was completely blocked. There was no air to transfer across the gpu and the cpu sink was bad enough.
Cleaned it out good and proper, gpu was a bit of a struggle considering where the dust was so I used a non static brush and a camera blower! It was everywhere, everything was blocked!
Now there's not a bit of dust, at first when I started the system up the cpu fan wasn't kicking in properly. Noticed it was down to some really bad BIOS set ups, and made sure the cpu fan was running 100% all the time and correct voltages across the board. System booted perfectly with a massive temp drop across the board, even my sister noted how much better it was. It was using some sort of back up error fixing bios every time before.
GPU temps when idling was about 46C and dropping, in game highest I saw it got to was about 73C. A huge difference and no warning signs or monitor shut offs. I'm surprised the graphics card wasn't damaged before
Took the computer apart and was met with A LOT of dust, the cpu heatsink was covered and the gpu heatsink was completely blocked. There was no air to transfer across the gpu and the cpu sink was bad enough.
Cleaned it out good and proper, gpu was a bit of a struggle considering where the dust was so I used a non static brush and a camera blower! It was everywhere, everything was blocked!
Now there's not a bit of dust, at first when I started the system up the cpu fan wasn't kicking in properly. Noticed it was down to some really bad BIOS set ups, and made sure the cpu fan was running 100% all the time and correct voltages across the board. System booted perfectly with a massive temp drop across the board, even my sister noted how much better it was. It was using some sort of back up error fixing bios every time before.
GPU temps when idling was about 46C and dropping, in game highest I saw it got to was about 73C. A huge difference and no warning signs or monitor shut offs. I'm surprised the graphics card wasn't damaged before
I'm surprised it isn't damaged too if its been repeatedly doing it, even with damage-limitation by shutting down!