Hmmm, it seems heat was the problem

[DarkSyd]

I had to change a modem in my machine last night, and I figured I might try flowing a tad more air over my G400. I was using one of those little low profile 486 fans, and I had a bigger fan (looks to be off of a Pentium, or possibly Socket 370 heatsink, not too sure where I got it). I just ziptied it on for the time being, wasn't planning on it being permanent.
Fired up the Freespace 2 demo and played for almost 2 hours without any problems or visual artifacts. Played Everquest with no hassles. Both were causing problems before. All seems to be good.
My card is not overclocked, so I can assume two things:
1-OEM cards should be shipped with an adequate fan. Perhaps mine is just a substandard card, but I suspect there are others out there.
2-Intel's fan shroud on slot 1 Cels stinks. It exhausts hot air directly onto the AGP card. I will be looking into this tonite.
Ah, who am I kidding? I'm playing Mechwarrior 3 (sans artifacts) tonite

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--My Stuff
Cel266@448,Asus P2B 1009 bios,128MB,16MB G400 (w/ augmented ventilation),Quantum Obsidian,Panasonic 17" S70,MX300,Fujitsu 5.25GB,Dlink 530CT+, 1 grey Cat, 1 orange Cat (currently MIA)

[ALBPM]

Hey DarkSyd,

I have had this problem with both G200 and G400. It's probably your Obsidian card sitting under the G400 generating enough heat to overheat your G400.

Paul

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P3-558(124x4.5), ABIT BX6 r2, 256MB PC100, MILL G400-32MB on BNC, Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 on D-sub, 21"Trinitron, SCSI CDR/RW, SCSI ZIP,SB Live!Value,USR Voice Faxmodem Pro(USB Ext) WN98
and a (Very Messy Desk) ;-P

[Brent]

Glad to hear you are in business. Always try to put a card that runs coolest next to the vid card and yes, the retail Celeron fan ducts a jet of hot air out the left side vent straight onto the display card. I have fitted a Tennmax Twin Cooler (does not fit a PPGA slocket model) which does not have this problem. As a work around, tape a 486 fan between the Celeron and the vid card blowing at the Celeron to deflect the heat back up to the power supply extractor fan.
Cheers
Brent

[DarkSyd]

Yeah, that Obsidian could double as a nifty space heater. They're spaced about as far apart as I can get'em, so I guess there's not a whole lot more I can do. As I said before tho, things seem to be running OK now, and I am going to try to redirect that warm air off of the CPU.

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--My Stuff
Cel266@448,Asus P2B 1009 bios,128MB,16MB G400 (w/ augmented ventilation),Quantum Obsidian,Panasonic 17" S70,MX300,Fujitsu 5.25GB,Dlink 530CT+, 1 grey Cat, 1 orange Cat (currently MIA)