Re: Radeon 9700 Overheating???

[Elton Woo <elwoo videotron ca>]

Jess Anderson wrote:

> Elton Woo:
>  
>
> > Matt Brei:

> > > Anyone having what seems to be a heat problem with a 9700 or
> > > any other newer radeon that uses the fglrx driver from ATI for
> > > that matter. []
> > >      

> > Doesn't this video card come with an onboard fan? Have you
> > tried running it with the case open just to make sure that the
> > fan *is* indeed working?
> >    
>
> A couple weeks ago my main machine started acting funny (it's
> running RH 7.2, not Fedora -- I have FC1 on my laptop, though).
> The video card was a 128 MB Radeon 8500 LE, which has a fan on
> the GPU. The fan was hosed (turning but way too slowly). 
>  
The very minute I noticed the fan was turning *too* slowly, I would
have IMMEDIATLY shut off the machine. Especially if I had a 128 Mb
video card in my machine instead of my cheapo (and reliable) 32 Mb
nVidia card!

.... ah! *Experience* ...it can be costly, but hopefully one learns!
<*tsk*!> <*tsk*!> <*tsk*!>

Elton ;-)

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