How do i find out how much of my psu is being used with geforce 6800?

The PCI fan thingy i mentioned i was getting arrived today.

Seemed to do the trick for my over heating problem.Althou my case is stil very hot lol cpu got to 70*C during counter strike source. case going to about the same :dead: but g-card staying ok as far as i no. i have 1 hell of a crazy system tht needs a hell of a new case asap

Tyler-
Those connections sound right to me. Just didn't want to confuse you with my earlier post. Those beeps sound like a memory problem. You can test your RAM with a free utility called memtest86. It is downloadable at http://www.memtest86.com/ . Basically you make a bootable floppy and then install the memtest86 onto it. Then set your boot order in BIOS to boot from the floppy drive first. Insert the floppy, restart and the PC will boot from the floppy and memtest86 will start to run. Let it run for a couple hours and you should see zero errors. if you don't have a floppy drive you can use a bootable CD (instructions on site).

merc14- went to the beepcode website (Your link didnt work for me).If my computers bios is AMI then wouldthis be the right link for it. i cant see my beep code there as mine is just one long eternal beep! I shall try the Memtest aswell but I dont have a floppy drive so will have to try the c.d one. Thanks

joemailey- I am testing the fastwrites theory now! will get back to you soon.Regards

i don't no what you mean by 1 long etrenal beep but on that site with the link you provided. it says

1 long = POST has passed all tests

providing it goes beeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppppppp

then stops n goes to windows loading screen i gues you PC be fine.

If it was serias beep you shouldnt be able to access you pc at all should fail during the post test (the test it does once you turn pc on.). it should stop there.

I'd say your mother board be fine.

The beep sound i get is not on the bios it is during gameplay.my pc loads up fine.i will start to play a game and then after about ten-twenty minutes the game screen will freeze and so will the mouse and i will hear a beep sound which doesnt stop it is continious, it never changes in pitch or pauses. this goes on until i turn the power off or reset on the front of the pc. thats why i wasnt sure whether the bios codes were relevant because the pc starts up fine.thanks

i can located the problem.

i be 100% sure about this after few answers.

1 do you have anything monitoring your system temp. processor, graphics card ?

if so i would put 100% that you are stll over heating somewhere from earlier posts i would say it would be your graphics card hitting a certian temp. and then the warning would be a beeping noise to tell you.
"look listen your over heating me here."

My 6600 doesnt have temp monitor. so i no the 6800gt does what is the limit for max temp. maybe that is causing the beep.

Are you sure you have fitted the cooler etc. n that the fan is working on the GPU?

because you sound like you hitting max temp limit which is were the beeping is coming from.

Tyler-
You're correct, that isn't a BIOS beep code but a sysfailure code. That beep is usually related to CPU failure due to overheating. Can you load motherboard monitor (free download utility) and then run a CPU intensive program like SuperPI and watch the CPU temps up until the failure/beep. Run it while watching the CPU temp on motherboard monitor and see if there is a correlation.

100% cpu over heating problem.


what CPU cooling do you have at the min? normal retail heatsink n fan. or have you got something new for it.

(sorry if you answer this already.)

get mother board monitor but i dont see the sense in running any tests as it is you CPU over heating.

dont have to think twice bout it. you need some serious cooling for cpu.

Althou i cant talk because my CPU reaches 75-80*C during counter strike source. Sits at about 50-60 when doing nothing lmao

joemailey-I monitor the Gpu temperaturer using everest. This also gives me the Cpu temperatures and fan speeds etc. the software that came with the graphics card also gives me a Gpu temperature and an option to alert me when the gpu overheats. the fan on the arctic cooler for the Gpu is definetly working.
merc14- could you tell me how to get the motherboard monitor and super pi programs and how to use them.could i use everest to monitor my Cpu temperature and run this super pi progrsam to test it? thanks

motherboard monitor download Fixed link


super pi i have never used < u can test ur pc but if defo CPU over heating problem

o.k i just ran a game again and it crashed after about two minutes! i disabled fastwrites like you said. i didnt even get enough time to check the CPU temps.I wouldnt have thought it would overheat this fast?regards

if you were running the game not that long b4 you tried it again yes it would happen again an again if u do it like 1hr later etc.

Tyler-
SuperPI is just a rewrite of the old supercomputer program that runs PI out to 32million characters. You can run it to 16000 places, or 2 mill. or 4 mill. etc. up to 32 mill. Download here and run it out to 8 million and see what temps your CPU hits http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=36 . You don't need mobo monitor if you have some other CPU temp monitor. Super PI runs in like 8 minutes to 8 million places. It should run your CPU up to 100%

I ran super pi at 32 million and the cpu usage only went upto about 60%. the temperature of the cpu is currently at about 45.I tried running more programs at the same time but i can only get the cpu usage to about 80%. I think im running the super pi program right i just go onto it click calclate then 32 million and it starts up.is this right?regards

Tyler-
If you have hyperthreading on it may show differently. When I run it on my wife's P4 it runs at 50% in both windows in Task Manager.

Yes that is how you run it. It just starts kicking out iterations in the window. It should run the CPU at 100% though. If the GPU warning is on in the utility that came with your video card then it could be that overheating alarm going off. I think Riva tuner has a monitor for GPU temp built in that will stay stuck to the desktop while a game is running. http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/

Either way, I'd take off the NV5 and clean off the GPU with some 99% alcohol (rubbing alcohol from the drug store) and then remount the NV5 with just a dollop of thermal paste about the size of half a grain of rice in the center of the GPU. Too much thermal paste will actually insulate the GPU from the heatsink rather than connecting them more closely together and raise temperatures. After the remount try to run a game again.

Vidoe card over heating would beep for ever.

long beep comes from the bios is when the bios detects the CPU has over heated.

and the GPU temp was @ 35*C earlier which under heavy stress it shouldnt rise to 115*C. read below mate ur card is fine.

6600GT
I got an answer from the Gigabyte Tech Support, they answered in <1 hour, respect!
That is what they answered:

Here are the normal Temps. :

Idle 65-75°C
Load 85-95°C
Max 115°C

In the monitoring software included with my Graphics card it lists the core slowdown temperature as being 135 c. So Iam pretty sure that it cant be the graphics card overheating as the temps never rise above about 40 c now I have the new arctic cooler.So I think it must be the CPU overheating on me. Unless anyone can think of anything else, but I am quite close to giving up.I shall try using a house fan on the CPU again, but the temps are allready quite low (about 60 c maxiumum).I don think this is too hot? Regards

Tyler-
Two things could be going on:
1. The CPU was permanently damaged by the heat from earlier.
2. If you can run SuperPI and other programs without failure but a game causes system crashes then look to the game as the problem. How many programs cause the sysetm to crash now? As I remember you were having freezes and BSODs all the time. Things seem to be limited to just a couple or just one program as of now and it is a crash right, not a BSOD.

If you suspect the CPU then pull off the HSF and apply some Arctic Silver and reattach it. Sometimes that is all it takes.

But still the game would cause the pc to crash but it shouldnt make a beeping noise.

beep = cpu temp.

and some games are more intenvise than a lot of software. these days.

playing for long time 20mins+ cpu is getn warmer and warmer. so u'll need superpi to run for say 1hr start the game up to then hit Alt+Tab to switch bk to you screen minimising the game. and then keep an eye on you temps.

The only programs that cause the system to crash are games.im not sure what you mean by BSOD.
the two games that crash are:Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Age of empires 3 demo.i can play deus ex invisible war perfectly at the highest settings for many hours without a single crash.what does this mean? could it be a game setting? i shall try to test more games new and old.regards