Re: my video card is possessed

Aidan Gauland wrote: So, any recommendations for an AGP video card? I suppose I should have said what I need to do with it: I play with Blender a bit, but I don't do anything complex with it; and I use Pipmak which needs 3D hardware acceleration for displayin

Re: my video card is possessed

Aidan Gauland wrote: Right, here's what I've ruled out (and why)... [snip] Let's add RAM to that list. The memory test passed (I only ran it for 10 hours; I was too impatient to wait for the rest to finish). So that leaves... [snip] * The power supply is not delivering enough power. Uhhh

Re: my video card is possessed

Nope, my drives have never let me down. And the cables look fine. Euan Clark wrote: Have you had any drive issues? Check for IDE cables being dodgy and/or shorting to the case - I had a recent experiance similar to yours where this turned out to be the issue.

Re: my video card is possessed

Have you had any drive issues? Check for IDE cables being dodgy and/or shorting to the case - I had a recent experiance similar to yours where this turned out to be the issue. Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't reassure you *that* far. But the only components that I have touched before this probl

Re: my video card is possessed

I can't reassure you *that* far. But the only components that I have touched before this problem started to occur are the drives. Christopher Sawtell wrote: Can you re-assure us that it is completely impossible that your machine could have suffered damage from static electricity? That is to s

Re: my video card is possessed

If I run the GUI, it tells me that I "do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver", and then only gives me options for the GUI itself, but not the card. Nick Rout wrote: well does nvidia-settings run? it has a gui too, mine shows gpu core temp, but its a recent card.

Re: my video card is possessed

well does nvidia-settings run? it has a gui too, mine shows gpu core temp, but its a recent card. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > I already tried just > nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp > and it gave the same output. > BTW $DISPLAY=:0.0 > >  -Aidan > > Euan Clark wrote: >> >