Help?! Parhelia troubles :(

[SaTaN^666]

yea I get the same problem as well as many other problems with my parhelia... such as overheating. my case is very well cooled, neevr had n/e problems... but since I got teh parhelia I cant seem to play many games for more then 20-40 mins without crashing
q3 especially. I tried getting new drivers and alot of other software but could not fix this. its an overheat and to run my games for more then 1 hour I must have my house fan blowing directly at the parhelia..... which is very loud.

[Peter Aragon]

It could be the heat sink doesn't make surface contact with the GPU. I read that sometimes the paste that is between them is not spread evenly. You can either replace the paste and have the risk of getting no technical support anymore because you messed with the card, or request an RMA from Matrox and have it replaced.

Good luck,

[iwik]

Hi Guys,
Just been reading your threads.I was just having funny things with my P.The p/s was at fault.Very important with the new card
that your P/S is good.Matrox reccommends 400watt .
MY 3.3v line was 13% low.Had trouble with Nvidia cards as well,funny thing is though that you really have to push these cards before they play up.Cant emphasise the P/S issue enough.
Get your self a multimeter and put one probe on the orange wire
and one probe on the black one.This is the connector that plugs on onto the motherboard.Should read 3.3 +- 5%.Mine was giving probs with 2.9v.When measuring run a very intensive program.
Good Luck
Les