graphics card restats

[roryson]

im running adobe flash pro cs5 and windows media player on Windows 7 and every once in a while my graphics card reboots, desktop goes black and then everything is fine again, this repeats. any ideas people. just installd latest nvidia drivers..

[Snaz]

same problem wid my ati radeon it cuz when 3d card heatup to much

[zsolty_szasz]

In this case you shuold trie to change the silicon under the heatsink. Also you should consider replace the cooler on the heatsink, or change the whole heatsink.

[roryson]

cheers for that

[roryson]

i have some silver thermal paste, that would do would'nt it?

[zsolty_szasz]

Yes, definitly
If you need something better try Arctic Silver 5.
Cheers,

[jtr8178]

i have some silver thermal paste, that would do would'nt it?

Just to make sure this is your program, I would suggest installing this program:

CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting

Its free, and it monitors your temps of everything in your computer. Just let it run in the background and see what the MAX gets up to. This will let us know for sure that it is running too hot, but it sounds like your problem.

+1 for the suggestion on the Artic Silver!

[roryson]

i got Spire silver thermal paste. cost ?4.50 only a few pence difference in price than the Artic silver. i got it from my local PC shop..

[roryson]

at the moment my computer aint doing anything and my GPU is running at 53 degrees, is that norm or what. ill run some programs tomorow and post the results... cheers

[zsolty_szasz]

53 degrees in iddle is good, try to run a game for a half an hour, alt+tab and see after that the temperature.
Not normal is 90-110 degrees for example.

PS: did you update youre video card driver to the latest?

[jtr8178]

at the moment my computer aint doing anything and my GPU is running at 53 degrees, is that norm or what. ill run some programs tomorow and post the results... cheers

53 degrees is just fine at no load ... Like the other poster suggested, play a video game for 30 minutes and check what the max temp got up to.

We also need to know what version drivers you have installed.

[zsolty_szasz]

I forgot to mention, that there is one thing you should check. Probably, youre power supply is also pretty weak. Trie to change the power supply, maybe this is youre source of youre problems, too.

[roryson]

i have an EZ-COOL 650 watt power supply and a NVIDIA GEFORCE 9600gt but not sure how to show what driver version i have installed. i upgraded my drivers a couple of week ago so should be current..

[zsolty_szasz]

You're power supply looks pretty good. One more thing you can do. Take out you're video card and go to one of you're friends and try in an another PC. See if you receive the same error. Also, observe the temperatures.

[roryson]

my drivers are 258.96_desktop_win7_winvista_32bit_international_w hql