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X1900XTX overheating problem

Slyman2k4

Slyman2k4

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Like title says my sapphire X1900XTX has started clocking 90-105 in temp and making a beeping noise with the screen flickering. It might have done this before i dunno but with my new dell 2407FPW even in wow. (yea wow lol thats when i thought something was wrong) temps started hitting 105 after a week and my pc emits a weaker version of the system beep and the screen flickers every so often when it overheats. So decided to hit the speed of the fans up as the ones before had it hitting 30% at 100c i think or something silly like that and it got it down to 60c idle and around 79 in wow with fan speeds of 32% at 70 and 100% at 100. It still gets noisey but wasnt as noisey when i put it to 100% at 60c. So i was wondering is there any way i could fix this or test it? or would this warrant an rma?

I had had enough of it after today when the heat in CoD2 were hitting 90+ and started blinking out.
 
My HIS x1900xtx gets to around 90 with fan running at standard rate of 36%
but then it kicks in to 50% fan which lowers the temps not
sure if this is different on other cards. My first HIS x1900xtx had same sort
of probs yours did so rma it. Think the prob was a faulty fan as it would stop
turning sometimes rmaed it back to oc and they replaced it no probs.

My idle seems to be pretty low compared with yours also i idle at 49 degrees.
 
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yea well i decided to try ati tools instead of ati tray tools since it had a artifact finder etc. Thought it would find an error something, here is the log.

2007-05-31 21:36:04 D Successfully connected to driver, version 130
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D Scanning for ATI VGA Cards...
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D Found ATI device: 0x1002 0x7249 bus 5 dev 0
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D fbPhy: 0xD0000000, mmrPhy: 0xFD8F0000.
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D mmapped mmr to 0x2080000
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D BIOS at 0xC0000
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D mmapped bios to 0x2090000
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D LM63 temp chip detection: success (0x1)
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D Temperature monitoring: LM63
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D VT1103 chip detection: success (0x37)
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D Device initialized successfully
2007-05-31 21:36:04 D Scanning for NVIDIA VGA Cards...
2007-05-31 21:36:04 I Forcing 3D clocks
2007-05-31 21:36:19 I Scan for Artifacts started... Core: 648.00 MHz Memory: 774.00 MHz
2007-05-31 21:36:19 I Scan for Artifacts running for: 0:00:00
2007-05-31 21:39:13 I Temperature: GPU: 107.6°C GPU environment: 68.0°C
2007-05-31 21:39:23 I Temperature: GPU: 107.9°C GPU environment: 68.0°C
2007-05-31 21:39:33 I Temperature: GPU: 110.3°C GPU environment: 69.0°C
2007-05-31 21:39:43 I Temperature: GPU: 111.0°C GPU environment: 69.0°C
2007-05-31 21:39:53 I Temperature: GPU: 112.1°C GPU environment: 70.0°C
2007-05-31 21:40:03 I Temperature: GPU: 112.9°C GPU environment: 70.0°C
2007-05-31 21:40:13 I Temperature: GPU: 114.1°C GPU environment: 70.0°C
2007-05-31 21:40:23 I Temperature: GPU: 114.1°C GPU environment: 71.0°C
2007-05-31 21:40:33 I Temperature: GPU: 114.5°C GPU environment: 71.0°C
2007-05-31 21:40:43 I Temperature: GPU: 113.9°C GPU environment: 72.0°C
2007-05-31 21:40:53 I Temperature: GPU: 116.4°C GPU environment: 72.0°C
2007-05-31 21:41:03 I Temperature: GPU: 116.9°C GPU environment: 73.0°C
2007-05-31 21:41:13 I Temperature: GPU: 117.5°C GPU environment: 73.0°C
2007-05-31 21:41:23 I Temperature: GPU: 118.3°C GPU environment: 74.0°C
2007-05-31 21:41:33 I Temperature: GPU: 118.9°C GPU environment: 74.0°C


I had to stop after that point because well the monitor lost connection and went into power saving mode lol.
 
My first card reached those temps it was basically fried. It would be stable
until any stress was put on it. The only thing is to get it rma-ed. Even the
idle temp you are saying reminds me of that card. Run the test again and
check to see if the fan is spinning.
 
yea they are spinning mate, have a clear view into the case from the window and its running like a trooper. Sounds like a plane taking off at full speed lol. Well it crashed again while playing CoD2. Ive had it for more than over a year so i dont think ill be able to rma it back to ocuk and will have to get in touch with sapphire.

Im going on holidays tomorrow, so im considering if sapphire fob me off i might get a X1950 over there. But then again id be afraid of it going dud and me not being able to rma it due to region xD.
 
Jeeesus!

They are mega high! 117C is too much, im suprised it even got there as all the cards i've even used crashed at >80-85C...

Ambient is far too high aswell...

Air flow problems TBH.

What happens with the fan at 100% and the case open?
 
Slyman,

Change the cooler (to something like THIS or THIS) or hoover the stock cooler out. Just because the fan is spinning doesn't mean it's moving air. If the heatsinks fins are caked in dust the fan won't pull any air through.

Check a little closer. Open the case and have a good look.

I made these pics a few month ago for another x1900 user to explain where he needed to check to clear dust out of his card.

Look here:

1800a.jpg


and here:

1800b.jpg


Good luck! :)

gt
 
I had to go afk last night and i leave at 6 today so havent really got time to do it till i get back :(. Sorry bout that chaps. I promise ill do it in three weeks time and let you know how it goes. Sorry for leaving you in suspense lol.
 
My HIS x1900XT was (what i call overheating) @ 58c idle & 75 load.
Took fan off & removed a mat of dust 1 cm thick that was blocking the fans airflow, then cleaned the crap thermal gunk off with isopropanol & applyed some AS5.
Idle temps now 41C @ 32% fan speed, load temps 62C @ 32% fan speed.
In the heat of TODAY its idling @ 48C (28C room temp) :cool:
I would certainly give your card a "Spring Clean".
 
I got same idle as you on my x1900xtx but under load it goes upto 90degrees
and then comes back down once fan kicks into 50%. I could easily sort this
out with a fan config in ati tool but from reading around 90 degrees is nothing
this card can't handle. I don't overclock my system at the moment so a little
heat not a prob atm.
 
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