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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of |
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>> that? i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than enough |
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>> cooling on the case. The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not turning or |
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>> something. I did blow out the dust a while back and I do have filters over |
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>> the intakes to help some. |
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> Some Nvidia cards can go into a slow-motion mode when they overheat, I |
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> had that happen on mine (it was a 6000 or 7000 series, I think) when |
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> the fan died and I didn't realize it. The slowdown was dramatic in |
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> those cases. It would usually happen if I was playing a game or a |
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> video, suddenly it would go 2 frames per second. I'd stop the |
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> game/video, and even things like opening a window were slow. After a |
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> minute or two, everything would be back to normal speed. Eventually I |
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> learned that the card was protecting itself by switching to an |
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> ultra-slow mode to try to fight the overheating. |
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> nvidia-settings may be able to show you the temperature and speeds on |
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> your card. You might need to add: |
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> Option "coolbits" "1" |
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> to the device section in your xorg.conf to get it to show you some of |
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> those options if they aren't initially visible. |
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I appear to have another issue to deal with right now. This is weird. |
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When I type in any nvclock command, I get something like this: |
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root@smoker / # nvclock -i |
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*** buffer overflow detected ***: nvclock terminated |
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======= Backtrace: ========= |
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/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0xb75af850] |
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/lib/libc.so.6(+0xe18aa)[0xb75ad8aa] |
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/lib/libc.so.6(+0xe0f78)[0xb75acf78] |
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/lib/libc.so.6(__overflow+0x4a)[0xb753670a] |
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/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x50b9)[0xb750db39] |
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/lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xa7)[0xb75ad027] |
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/lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0xb75acf6d] |
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nvclock[0x8057317] |
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[0x30322e34] |
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======= Memory map: ======== |
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08048000-08060000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 311032 /usr/bin/nvclock |
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08060000-08061000 r--p 00017000 08:16 311032 /usr/bin/nvclock |
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08061000-08062000 rw-p 00018000 08:16 311032 /usr/bin/nvclock |
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09369000-0938a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] |
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b731f000-b733b000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 2070143 |
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/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/libgcc_s.so.1 |
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b733b000-b733c000 r--p 0001b000 08:16 2070143 |
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/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/libgcc_s.so.1 |
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b733c000-b733d000 rw-p 0001c000 08:16 2070143 |
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/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/libgcc_s.so.1 |
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b7360000-b7370000 rw-s dc300000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7370000-b7470000 rw-s dc700000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7470000-b74a0000 rw-s dc000000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b74a0000-b74a1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 |
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b74a1000-b74a5000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 242258 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 |
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b74a5000-b74a6000 r--p 00003000 08:16 242258 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 |
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b74a6000-b74a7000 rw-p 00004000 08:16 242258 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 |
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b74a7000-b74a9000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 179499 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 |
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b74a9000-b74aa000 r--p 00001000 08:16 179499 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 |
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b74aa000-b74ab000 rw-p 00002000 08:16 179499 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 |
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b74ab000-b74ac000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 |
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b74ac000-b74ae000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 3019384 /lib/libdl-2.11.2.so |
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b74ae000-b74af000 r--p 00001000 08:16 3019384 /lib/libdl-2.11.2.so |
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b74af000-b74b0000 rw-p 00002000 08:16 3019384 /lib/libdl-2.11.2.so |
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b74b0000-b74ca000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 2178229 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 |
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b74ca000-b74cb000 r--p 00019000 08:16 2178229 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 |
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b74cb000-b74cc000 rw-p 0001a000 08:16 2178229 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 |
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b74cc000-b760c000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 3018521 /lib/libc-2.11.2.so |
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b760c000-b760e000 r--p 0013f000 08:16 3018521 /lib/libc-2.11.2.so |
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b760e000-b760f000 rw-p 00141000 08:16 3018521 /lib/libc-2.11.2.so |
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b760f000-b7612000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 |
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b7612000-b7620000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 623393 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 |
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b7620000-b7621000 r--p 0000d000 08:16 623393 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 |
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b7621000-b7622000 rw-p 0000e000 08:16 623393 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 |
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b7622000-b773e000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 2143515 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 |
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b773e000-b773f000 r--p 0011b000 08:16 2143515 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 |
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b773f000-b7742000 rw-p 0011c000 08:16 2143515 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 |
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b774f000-b7751000 rw-s dc680000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7751000-b7761000 rw-s dc610000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7761000-b7763000 rw-s dc601000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7763000-b7764000 rw-s dc100000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7764000-b7765000 rw-s dc101000 00:0d 8375 /dev/nvidia0 |
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b7765000-b7766000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 |
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b7766000-b7767000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] |
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b7767000-b7783000 r-xp 00000000 08:16 3019734 /lib/ld-2.11.2.so |
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b7783000-b7784000 r--p 0001b000 08:16 3019734 /lib/ld-2.11.2.so |
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b7784000-b7785000 rw-p 0001c000 08:16 3019734 /lib/ld-2.11.2.so |
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bfe28000-bfe49000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] |
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Aborted |
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root@smoker / # |
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I guess I'll have to take the side off the case and use the infrared |
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thingy and look to see if the fan is turning. I'm not sure what is |
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going on with the buffer overflow error tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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