roland Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 hi, guys i still i cant figure out what is yhe problem of my pc i. i recently installed QUADRO4 980 XGL 128 MB. I got when i do rendering all of the sudden my pc is re started. please any body can help me thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 not sure. if i guessed, i would say defective ram. were you rendering on this computer before? could be a conflicting driver. i would start by installing a cheap video card, and rendering to see if it crashes. i doubt the card itself is defective, but again, i am just guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 i recently installed QUADRO4 980 XGL 128 MB. I got when i do rendering all of the sudden my pc is re started. please any body can help me thank you. Driver, obviously. Can you command-line render? That's one way to tell if the card is causing the crash. OR... Power. High-end video cards suck current like a city switching on all air conditioners at once. And it happens when the card switches into high-res modes. How big is the power supply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I have to guess, as it isnt too clear to me as well, but I dont see what the rendering has to do with the video card. If it isnt crashing on orbiting the model, and then it crashes on rendering - look at everything else BUT the vid card. anything else you changed along the way? What is crashing - machine, program..? Which program? Which driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Vestal Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I had a similar problem. I have to agree with Ernest. The power supply is not handeling the added drain. I solved mine when I added a few more watts. good luck, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I had a similar problem. I have to agree with Ernest. The power supply is not handeling the added drain. I solved mine when I added a few more watts. good luck, It makes sense - the Quadro draws more power than most cards, and the CPU draws more power when it's doing more work - which would be why it happens when it's rendering. I'm guessing it's a P4, high clock speed, sold as a consumer-level computer, and maybe you also added an extra hard drive? Get a beast of a power supply in there, it will make everything run a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted July 11, 2005 Author Share Posted July 11, 2005 I had a similar problem. I have to agree with Ernest. The power supply is not handeling the added drain. I solved mine when I added a few more watts. good luck, what do you mean adding few watts. can you pls. tell me how to do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhite Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 Power supplies are typically rated in watts. Getting a larger power supply will be 'adding more watts' since you would need to replace your 300 or 350 watt power supply with something like a 450 or 500 watt supply. I have mentioned before on this forum that I had a computer built and when I started rendering higher resolution images the computer would crash for no apparent reason. After wasting a ton of time, missing deadlines, and replacing the video card, I found out that one stick of memory couldn't take the heat. I removed 1 gig of ram (ran many large renderings on 512 without any issues before getting the replacement) and everything was fine from that day on. If you are in a hot region (Dubai) then your ambient temperature may have increased enough to create to high of temperatures in the case overheat some component during rendering. Good luck and please let everyone know what fixes the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 That's another good point, depending on what your hardware is it probably has thermometers in it, and your computer or motherboard manufacturer might have a program that monitors the internal temperature and CPU temperature. I had a computer that was built from parts, then when I upgraded all the parts it was running really hot (CPU was at 65C or so, even though it was an Athlon that shouldn't have been going higher than 50-55) so I replaced the case with a new one made of aluminum with 5 fans, and the CPU temp dropped to 50-55. I could tell this was a problem because I had a program running to monitor temp and with the old case it would sometimes beep obnoxiously, esp if I was doing something like rendering or encoding video and it was summer with the AC turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted July 12, 2005 Author Share Posted July 12, 2005 Driver, obviously. Can you command-line render? That's one way to tell if the card is causing the crash. OR... Power. High-end video cards suck current like a city switching on all air conditioners at once. And it happens when the card switches into high-res modes. How big is the power supply? 300 watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted July 12, 2005 Author Share Posted July 12, 2005 thank you guys, first i will try to remove the cover of my casing to get enough air in it. the n i will buy a new power supply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted July 13, 2005 Author Share Posted July 13, 2005 guys, when im doing a simple renderings all of the sudden it will give a message of APPLICATION ERROR. is it b'coz my power supply is low at the moment i got 300 watts. is it ok if i increase it to 500 watts. it will not create a fire or over heating. thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhite Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Removing the case may not help especially if there is a duct/tube on the side of the case funneling/directing air directly to the CPU. I think you need to monitor the CPU temps first to start trouble shooting this issue. Adding a 500 watt power supply should not increase the temperature inside the case - to my knowledge at least as long as it has a good (clean) fan. Check your filters, are they clean?? Is the fan properly seated on the CPU. Did any of the fans get disconnected when someone was installing the new video card? Is the video card/ video card fan blowing additional heat to the CPU now? When I had the memory overheating issue, I took the side off the case and used a portable house fan and directed a ton of air into the case which was blowing directly on the CPU. During rendering when temps were climbing, I could adjust the position of the fan so that I got the best cooling. Not the most efficient method of cooling, but it did get jobs out the door - for a while anyway. Also, as summer progressed, the effectiveness of the portable house fan decreased to the point that the coputer was crashing even on short renderings. At that point I had to start trouble shooting and eventually found the bad memory chip. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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