Extremely high temperature

CoOLzdud3 · 01-11-2006, 08:07 AM

Hi, I have 2 Gigabyte Nvidia 6600GTs. Drivers' version is Forceware 81.98. From the Nvidia's built-in temperature sensor and Ntune utility which I downloaded, it always displays the first graphics card to be in a moderate temperature of less than 70 degrees. The second graphics card however has a temperature of 238 degrees celsius!! It does fluctuate a little thou' but still above 200 degrees! I had asked my vendor before, and was advised to update my drivers. On curiosity, I tried to use single-display mode on my 2nd graphcs card. At first the screen showed 'Out of frequency'. After that, Windows XP did work, but still failed to display CDs and DVDs Video playback. I did that twice but to no avail. My CPU and motherboard temp. is fine. I have 2 casing fans. The graphics cards are running at stock speed. What is wrong with my graphics card??

Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe
Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz
1 GB RAM
80GB Hard drive

**gamerman0203** · 01-11-2006, 09:28 AM

Welcome to TSF

Well, if that temperature was true, you're internals would have completely melted! It is weird how that read that however. I don't think the program is making it up though. I think the second card might be going bad because the temp senser is giving false data and when you run with just that card, it doesn't perform up to its stadards. Is the card new? Can you return it or do you have someone that you know with the same card so you can swap it to see if the other card performs fine?

Good luck.

ZDarryl · 01-11-2006, 10:11 AM

Have you tried switching the two cards around to isolate whether it is the slot or the card?

CoOLzdud3 · 01-12-2006, 09:32 AM

The card is about 2 months old. It was part of a computer system I bought. Im sure I could get this problem solved by bringing my whole system back to the store where I bought it, but it seems a little troublesome. Nop, I haven't tried to exchange the cards, for fear that the "good" card will be fried! I just fear that it has something to do with the motherboard wiring??

ZDarryl · 01-12-2006, 10:29 AM

Why don't you try the "bad" card in the good slot by itself and leave the "good" card out. If the "bad" card works in the good slot, then the other slot is bad.

01-11-2006, 08:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
CoOLzdud3 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4 OS: Win XP Pro 32-bit	Extremely high temperature Hi, I have 2 Gigabyte Nvidia 6600GTs. Drivers' version is Forceware 81.98. From the Nvidia's built-in temperature sensor and Ntune utility which I downloaded, it always displays the first graphics card to be in a moderate temperature of less than 70 degrees. The second graphics card however has a temperature of 238 degrees celsius!! It does fluctuate a little thou' but still above 200 degrees! I had asked my vendor before, and was advised to update my drivers. On curiosity, I tried to use single-display mode on my 2nd graphcs card. At first the screen showed 'Out of frequency'. After that, Windows XP did work, but still failed to display CDs and DVDs Video playback. I did that twice but to no avail. My CPU and motherboard temp. is fine. I have 2 casing fans. The graphics cards are running at stock speed. What is wrong with my graphics card?? Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 1 GB RAM 80GB Hard drive

01-11-2006, 09:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
gamerman0203 Retired Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 2,144 OS: XP MCE, Ubuntu Gutsy My System	Welcome to TSF Well, if that temperature was true, you're internals would have completely melted! It is weird how that read that however. I don't think the program is making it up though. I think the second card might be going bad because the temp senser is giving false data and when you run with just that card, it doesn't perform up to its stadards. Is the card new? Can you return it or do you have someone that you know with the same card so you can swap it to see if the other card performs fine? Good luck. __________________ Follow These Steps First! CPU-Z \| SensorView \| WinXP Clean Boot \| Latest DirectX \| ATI Catalyst \| Nvidia ForceWare Posting System Specifications

01-11-2006, 10:11 AM	#3 (permalink)
ZDarryl Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southern California Posts: 256 OS: XP Pro SP2 My System	Have you tried switching the two cards around to isolate whether it is the slot or the card? __________________ 35W Mobile XP2400+(IQYHA Stepping) @ 210x11.5=2415 @ 1.8V w/ Thermalright SP-97 Heatsink \| ABIT NF7-S Rev 2 \| 1GB Dual Channel GeIL Ultra PC4000 @ 2-4-4-7 \| AIW X800XT \| Audigy 2 ZS \| 160GB SATA, 200GB IDE, 250GB USB \| 5 LED Case Fans \| Enermax 470W PSU Spywareblaster \| ScreenShot Program 5655 3DMark05 \| 10784 3DMark03 \| 20978 3DMark01 \|

01-12-2006, 10:29 AM	#5 (permalink)
ZDarryl Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southern California Posts: 256 OS: XP Pro SP2 My System	Why don't you try the "bad" card in the good slot by itself and leave the "good" card out. If the "bad" card works in the good slot, then the other slot is bad. __________________ 35W Mobile XP2400+(IQYHA Stepping) @ 210x11.5=2415 @ 1.8V w/ Thermalright SP-97 Heatsink \| ABIT NF7-S Rev 2 \| 1GB Dual Channel GeIL Ultra PC4000 @ 2-4-4-7 \| AIW X800XT \| Audigy 2 ZS \| 160GB SATA, 200GB IDE, 250GB USB \| 5 LED Case Fans \| Enermax 470W PSU Spywareblaster \| ScreenShot Program 5655 3DMark05 \| 10784 3DMark03 \| 20978 3DMark01 \|

01-12-2006, 09:32 AM	#4 (permalink)
CoOLzdud3 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4 OS: Win XP Pro 32-bit	The card is about 2 months old. It was part of a computer system I bought. Im sure I could get this problem solved by bringing my whole system back to the store where I bought it, but it seems a little troublesome. Nop, I haven't tried to exchange the cards, for fear that the "good" card will be fried! I just fear that it has something to do with the motherboard wiring??