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three drives, three graphic cards, now my g4 shut down without warning...
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Germany
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i need some advice...
as i said, there are three drives and three graphic cards in my sawtooth g4.
the cards are: gf2fx(agp) and two villagetronic mpdd(pci). two drives are connected to the main ultra ata interface, the third drive is packed inside the zip bay via ide connection.
after some hours of working the main monitor got flickering soft dark strips. after a few minutes they will vanish and maybe come back later. at this point the machine just shut down completely. i guess either it gets to hot or the power-management collapses. without one pci card it works just fine.
now my idea is to buy a dual head pci card (radeon 7000) to drive three monitors with just two cards. does a dual head card consume less power than two single head cards??
any other ideas?
thanks in advance,
marc
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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I assume it's the power supply responsible for this behavior. My guess would be overheating. Therefore a Radeon 7000 might solve these problems simply because it consumes a lot less power than two seperate video cards.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Either overheating (most likely), or you're stressing out the PSU (drawing more power... lots of drives, lots of PCI cards, lots of power).
The Sawtooth 400 PSU is only 237 watts... which model is yours?
Anyway... run a thermometer app to see how hot its getting.
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