G400 rushed to market?

[The Rock]

Methinks Kenny and Motub are on to something. I never even considered the fact that the G400 might suck more juice than the G200, therefore causing increased heat. I guess it's a good thing I'm outta the tech support biz and into mainframes now.

The Rock
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Home Machine: P2 350+128Meg SDRAM
Work Machine: IBM OS/390 mainframe+10Gigs RAM (and no AGP slot...whatta waste )

[motub]

X-Kenny-X...your scenario is much more plausible... I forgot about the voltage as well... but I still give myself lots and lots of lovely credit for recognizing the now-classic (to me) symptoms of overheating in the system for whatever cause... let's say I got us to the ballpark, and you found the good seats...!

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Holly

[cjolley]

Ok let's narrow it down some more.
What brand of hhds?
You could fry an egg on a Seagate 7200rpm, but my IBM hardly gets warm.

chuck

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ABit BH6 w/ Celery 333@500, 128mb gh@cas2, 10gb IBM@7200, SB Live Value@44kh, noname CDRom@40x, Mitsumi CDRW@2x2x8, Zoom@56k, Princeton EO75@1024x768x32x85hz, USB mouse,Matrox G400 MAX!!!!

[merchant2112]

put a blow hole in suck all that heat out the top of your case.

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nvida the next generation of hype..... 3dfx so fast its vapor(for now)..... s3 hey they are trying...... bitboys produceing yet another set of chip spec's........ matrox the only company to actully make a next gen card that dose what they claim.


[This message has been edited by merchant2112 (edited 14 October 1999).]

[Paul Taylor]

YAHOOO!!!! I'VE FIXED IT!!!!!!
Thanks for all the help (but not for the insults!)

It turned out that the SYSTEM BIOS (not the settings but the BIOS itself) was CORRUPT!

I had already reset the BIOS settings (removing the jumper) but it had made no difference, so I re-flashed the BIOS!

There was no obvious evidence of this corruption but after re-flashing exactly the same version of the BIOS I'm no longer getting any corruption with the G400!!



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"Sleep, Oh how I loathe those little slices of death..."

[LAMFDTK]

I was going to suggest that ...hehehh

Nothing is more frustrating than doing everything right and still getting problems.

[Rags]

Great to hear that the problem is solved!!!!

Rags

[The Rock]

Paul Taylor:

Glad you fixed it; now you can enjoy the damn card finally. What about your friend with the same problem?

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The Rock
"Discourage incest - ban country music NOW!"

System:
P2 350 /w Asus P2B /w 128 Meg PC100 SDRAM
17.2Gig Maxtor DiamondMax HD + 6.4Gig Fujitsu HD
Matrox G400 32Meg + SB PCI 128 Sound
Modem Blaster 56K Modem + Panasonic 2x/4x SCSI Toaster + 32X CD-ROM

[Paul Taylor]

My friend has still got the problems, hes also re-flashed his BIOS, but no luck!

Now he's getting REALLY p*ssed off now that I solved my problems but he hasn't.



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"Sleep, Oh how I loathe those little slices of death..."

[DuRaNgO]

in any event, the heat problem could still be an issue, i.e. corrupt bios?
check the bottom of my specs
jim

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PIII-500mhz @ 620!
Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400(YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 160/200 with MGATweak)
PD 5.30
Maxtor 13.2 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se
DX7
THREE BIG FANS, six little ones and a case that sounds like a turbine engine...doh!