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DVA3233
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on June 14 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Northeastern United States
96 legs, 293.3 hours
44 legs,
210.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 17:29 ET by David Kaser
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I just bought an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card yesterday, and I'm having some pretty bad problems. The most notable of which is this. I will get about 20 minutes of time in which my monitor works, but then the graphics card stops sending a signal to my monitor. That is just with the desk top running. I get around 3 minutes if I'm running fs9 until I lose the signal. I've taken the issue up with ATI, but, quite frankly, their online database of "help" is quite laughable, and I trust the pilots here more than anyone else. So any help you can be a major help. If its just a "I don't but try this" it'll work too! Thanks!
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DVA3662
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on October 25 2006
Western United States
25 legs, 36.1 hours
21 legs,
28.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 19:18 ET by Mark Webster
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Sounds like a heat problem but I am just guessing.
Mark WebsterCaptain, CRJ-200
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DVA3233
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on June 14 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Northeastern United States
96 legs, 293.3 hours
44 legs,
210.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 19:19 ET by David Kaser
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I haven't seen or felt any indication of it heating up.
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DVA3662
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on October 25 2006
Western United States
25 legs, 36.1 hours
21 legs,
28.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 19:26 ET by Mark Webster
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only other thing I can think of is that maybe your on the limit of your power supply. I would remove any non-esential cards and try it again. This will remove extra wattage from the PS and increase cooling.
Mark WebsterCaptain, CRJ-200
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DVA3233
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on June 14 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Northeastern United States
96 legs, 293.3 hours
44 legs,
210.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 19:35 ET by David Kaser
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Haven't tried that. I'll see what happens. Thanks Mark!
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DVA3233
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on June 14 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Northeastern United States
96 legs, 293.3 hours
44 legs,
210.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 19:49 ET by David Kaser
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Now my computer is just restarting randomly, but the power thing seemed to be working, I hope! I really am starting to hate ATI right now!
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DVA3233
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on June 14 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Northeastern United States
96 legs, 293.3 hours
44 legs,
210.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 20:09 ET by David Kaser
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And the problem is.... The Power Supply. I am about 60W sort of what they recommend. Still don't know what is causing the shutdowns but they may be related. I'm going to take back what I said about ATI. They are all wonderful helpul people!
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com" Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online 580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS 89 legs,
191.0 hours event 236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
November 06 2006 20:18 ET by Michael Brown
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1) Make sure you have enough power. Any computer now-a-days needs at least a 450W powersupply, more like 500W if your using a SLI or PCIe video card.
2) Would it be correct to assume you had NO problems prior to installing your new video card?
3) Have you downloaded the latest drivers from ATI?
4) Have you tried updating your computer BIOS? This sometimes helps for a wide range of problems.
5) Heat is a factor, does your case have fairly good cooling? Is the room your computer is in hot? or really warm?
6) Try reseating the card. Take it out, blow some compressed air on the slot to lossen & get rid of dirt/dust, and reseat the card.
7) If all this doesn't work I'd exchange the card. These cards are massed produced and it isn't uncommon to simply have bought a bad card.
8) There are some occasions where certain motherboard, RAM & video card combinations (from different manufactures) have caused compatibility issues, may be something you want to investigate if a replacement card doesn't work either.
Hope that helps.
EDIT: One last thing....take a look in your BIOS settings. There may be a parameter in there you may need to adjust. All BIOS's are a little different, so you'll have to look.
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DVA3233
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on June 14 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Northeastern United States
96 legs, 293.3 hours
44 legs,
210.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 07 2006 15:52 ET by David Kaser
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Just the power, at least as far as I can tell for now. ATI recommended 300W for my card and I've already installed a 350W opposed to my 240W. Thanks for all the help!
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