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Please Help, 6th Video Card Replaced

Oct 20, 2004 11:34PM PDT

I bought a computer from Cyberpower. It keeps killing video cards. It seems like a cooling problem. The case temps range from 22c to 24c. It came with 2 cooling fans in the case.

Would more fans help?
Do you think it might be something else? (Motherboard, bios, etc..)
Any suggestions?

(5 times) NVIDIA Geforce-4 TI4200 128MB DDR 8X AGP w/ TV-Out & DVI
(Current) Albatron Ti4280EP (This one lasted almost 1 year)but it's failing now

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Re: Please Help, 6th Video Card Replaced
Oct 21, 2004 1:08PM PDT

Have you replaced the power supply?

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Re: Please Help, 6th Video Card Replaced
Oct 21, 2004 11:15PM PDT

the computer is only a little over a year old. I just pulled up my invoice. It's an ATX 430W P4 POWER SUPPLY WITH DUAL FANS. Retail is approx 80 bucks. I wouldn't think it's going bad already. If the computer were 5-6 years old, and it was a cheap power supply, maybe. I am getting no indications (random reboots, smell, sounds, etc) that it's going bad.

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Re: Please Help, 6th Video Card Replaced
Oct 22, 2004 12:51AM PDT

You are in a situation where you have to swap hardware until you figure out what is wrong with the system. the most likely cause of a video card going bad, over and over, is incorrect voltage from the motherboard, and that is most likely due to a faulty power supply.

You can get something like a Sparkle power supply, 450Watts or so, for around $50. That is the first step in trying to figure out where the problem is. The only other thing to replace is the motherboard. Those are the only 2 things that really could cause what you are seeing.