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From: Nobody on 13 Apr 2008 03:24 When I play a 1080P video on my plasma my computer shuts down after approximately 2 minutes. When in the bios health page I see that shutdown is selected for CPU at 70C and that when in the bios page the temperatures are: CPU 60C , case 35C Of course when my video is playing I cannot see these temperatures. ECS K1N SLI Extreme AMD64 +4000 Nvidia 8800GT dual DVI Media Player Classic Pioneer PDP-LX508d plasma files are TS When I play the same file but output to lower resolution to my LCD computer monitor there is no shutdown. One point of which I am uncertain is whether a video card if overtemperature can shut a computer down? I have all fans running at max and I do not overclock. All help appreciated. regards, Beemer
From: Paul on 13 Apr 2008 04:17 Nobody wrote: > When I play a 1080P video on my plasma my computer shuts down after > approximately 2 minutes. When in the bios health page I see that shutdown > is selected for CPU at 70C and that when in the bios page the temperatures > are: > > CPU 60C , case 35C > > Of course when my video is playing I cannot see these temperatures. > > ECS K1N SLI Extreme > AMD64 +4000 > Nvidia 8800GT dual DVI > Media Player Classic > Pioneer PDP-LX508d plasma > > files are TS > > When I play the same file but output to lower resolution to my LCD computer > monitor there is no shutdown. > > One point of which I am uncertain is whether a video card if overtemperature > can shut a computer down? > > I have all fans running at max and I do not overclock. > > All help appreciated. > > regards, > > Beemer > OK, I have a program that doesn't use the video card. Prime95 will load up the CPU and run it at 100%. (Select "Torture Test" when prompted.) This will give you an opportunity to see how hot the CPU gets. http://www.mersenne.org/gimps/p95v255a.zip This program is used to measure temperature and control fans. Start this running before Prime95, and see what your idle temperatures are like. Then, run Prime95, and wait a couple minutes for the CPU to heat up. That will give some idea how hot it would get while playing movies. It should be able to read out the three temperature channels on your SuperI/O chip. As well as a few other things, like maybe the hard drive temperature (as reported by S.M.A.R.T). http://www.almico.com/speedfan433.exe The CPU has a signal called THERMTRIP, and that can be used to turn off the computer. The power supply may have overcurrent or overtemperature, and the power supply could also shut off if it detected an extreme condition. The video card, AFAIK, doesn't have a way to turn off the computer in its hardware. The driver might have the ability to monitor temperature (maybe a program like GPUZ or Rivatuner could access that temperature readout). You'll have to look around, and see what utilities can read out the GPU temp. It is even possible that Speedfan can do that now. This is apparently a Rivatuner screen http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/nv40-5/6800-high.png ( http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-5.html ) The three temperatures you want to measure, under as extreme conditions as possible, are room temperature, computer case air temperature, and the CPU temperature, all when the CPU is at 100% loading. Prime95 is one way to get that kind of loading. Once you're finished with Prime95, you can stop and exit from it, and move on to the next test. You'd want to measure GPU temperature, under some extreme condition for the video card. I believe ATITool has a stability test, and you could use that to load up a video card. You should be able to still see the other utilities on the screen, while ATITool is running. (ATITool and GPUZ are here.) http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/ This is ATITool at work. The display doesn't take the full screen. ATITool works with ATI and Nvidia cards. http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/ATITool_1.gif Paul
From: VanguardLH on 13 Apr 2008 05:57 Speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php Didn't your motherboard or pre-build come with a temperature monitor program?
From: Nobody on 13 Apr 2008 17:00 "Paul" <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote in message news:ftsj2i$2to$1(a)aioe.org... > Nobody wrote: >> When I play a 1080P video on my plasma my computer shuts down after >> approximately 2 minutes. When in the bios health page I see that >> shutdown is selected for CPU at 70C and that when in the bios page the >> temperatures are: >> >> CPU 60C , case 35C >> >> Of course when my video is playing I cannot see these temperatures. >> >> ECS K1N SLI Extreme >> AMD64 +4000 >> Nvidia 8800GT dual DVI >> Media Player Classic >> Pioneer PDP-LX508d plasma >> >> files are TS >> >> When I play the same file but output to lower resolution to my LCD >> computer monitor there is no shutdown. >> >> One point of which I am uncertain is whether a video card if >> overtemperature can shut a computer down? >> >> I have all fans running at max and I do not overclock. >> >> All help appreciated. >> >> regards, >> >> Beemer >> > > OK, I have a program that doesn't use the video card. Prime95 will load > up the CPU and run it at 100%. (Select "Torture Test" when prompted.) > This will give you an opportunity to see how hot the CPU gets. > > http://www.mersenne.org/gimps/p95v255a.zip > > This program is used to measure temperature and control fans. Start this > running before Prime95, and see what your idle temperatures are like. > Then, run Prime95, and wait a couple minutes for the CPU to heat up. > That will give some idea how hot it would get while playing movies. > It should be able to read out the three temperature channels on your > SuperI/O chip. As well as a few other things, like maybe the hard drive > temperature (as reported by S.M.A.R.T). > > http://www.almico.com/speedfan433.exe > > The CPU has a signal called THERMTRIP, and that can be used to turn off > the computer. The power supply may have overcurrent or overtemperature, > and the power supply could also shut off if it detected an extreme > condition. The video card, AFAIK, doesn't have a way to turn off the > computer in its hardware. The driver might have the ability to monitor > temperature (maybe a program like GPUZ or Rivatuner could access that > temperature readout). You'll have to look around, and see what utilities > can read out the GPU temp. It is even possible that Speedfan can do that > now. > > This is apparently a Rivatuner screen > > http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/nv40-5/6800-high.png > > ( http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-5.html ) > > The three temperatures you want to measure, under as extreme conditions > as possible, are room temperature, computer case air temperature, and > the CPU temperature, all when the CPU is at 100% loading. Prime95 is > one way to get that kind of loading. > > Once you're finished with Prime95, you can stop and exit from it, and > move on to the next test. > > You'd want to measure GPU temperature, under some extreme condition for > the video card. I believe ATITool has a stability test, and you could use > that to load up a video card. You should be able to still see the other > utilities on the screen, while ATITool is running. > > (ATITool and GPUZ are here.) > http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/ > > This is ATITool at work. The display doesn't take the full screen. > ATITool works with ATI and Nvidia cards. > > http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/ATITool_1.gif > > Paul > Paul, Thanks again for the help (you helped me in a different thread re memory testing and all checkd out okay but I'm still getting shutdowns) I'll download these progs and start monitoring. regards, Beemer
From: Nobody on 13 Apr 2008 17:03
"VanguardLH" <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote in message news:ftsouq$qh4$1(a)registered.motzarella.org... > Speedfan > http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php > > Didn't your motherboard or pre-build come with a temperature monitor > program? > I can't recall seeing one but I'll chek out the MB utilities tomorrow. Thanks, Beemer |