On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:34:42 +0100
Eric Brasseur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snip>

> I directed a ventilator towards my GeForce2 passively
> cooled chip. I used a big (for power supplies) and silent
> ventilator and I feed it with 5 Volts instead of 12
> Volts. That doesn't make a lot of wind but enough to cool
> the heat sink down completely. It is virtually noiseless.
> Picture at
> http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/ventilator.geforce2.jpg
> 
> Another possibility: did you check the power supply
> tensions under load? When images load in Firefox, for
> example. Old power supplies often become unstable and
> account for many ghostly problems.
> 
Thanks Eric .. that is an interesting solution.  You may
also be right about the power supply.  That is the other
component I have thought of changing.  Very rarely (and
apparently unrelated to graphics load), the box resets
itself, and I know that can by a symptom of an overloaded
psu. 

Geoff

                
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