non-overclocked banshee overheating ?

[hmmm]

i have non-overclocked creative's banshee video card (was gonna buy geforce 2 mx about month ago, now waiting for a while until geforce 3 ti 200/radeon 8500 gets a little cheaper), and very often when i watch tv on my monitor (through tv card) the screen freezes after a while...music im listening to and sound from tv continue but screen freezes....

i doubt it is cpu that is overheating because temperature doesnt get nowhere near to what it gets when running prime95, which doesnt crash the comp either (although the temperature is called "temperature 1") and when watching tv the system monitor says processor usage is something like 20-30 %...

i was just playing unreal tournament and then i touched the heatsink on the banshee (the card has no fan at all, only a heatsink) and it was extremely hot, i couldnt keep my finger on it at all...so could this be what causes the lockups when watching tv on monitor ?? i really have no idea whatsoever how hot heatsink on video card is "allowed" to be.. just doesnt sound right that non-overclocked video card would be that hot

[13oots2]

I'm not too sure that heat is your problem, Voodoo cards get hot. I had a Voodoo 3000 PCI that used to cook my modem, it really did get that hot.
Are you using the latest drivers and the latest version of DirectX? I recently installed a Geforce2 MX, and somehow an older version of DirectX had corrupted V8. Every game I played crashed, and sometimes it would lock in the middle of Windows even at stock speed. Re-installing the latest drivers and patches solved this.

[Jon]

Those old cards get hot, really hot. With no active cooling, I don't doubt your claim at all, but I would also say not to be concerned.

I've got an old system I use just for SETI that has an STB Velocity 4400 PCI video card in it that uses no active cooling either and I can't hold my finger on the heatsink of that thing either. That's just normal running...no graphically intense programs being run at all.

If you're really concerned with the heat you could try mounting a fan over it somehow just to get some kind've airflow around that card.

I agree with bad drivers or some other system instability, however.

[hmmm]

ok good to know that they are supposed to get that hot....

well weird thing is that the computer doesnt crash or lock up on games...only game that sometimes (very rarely) crashes to desktop is Unreal Tournament, but im pretty sure its almost always because of UT's bad demo-playing system (for example Deus Ex that uses UT engine never crashes).....hmm could tv card program heat the video card more than games....btw tv card is using irq 7 and not sharing it with other devices, so that shouldnt be a problem

but before trying to add more cooling to video card i will try uninstalling and re-installing drivers for tv card and re-installing direct x...after christmas i am gonna buy a new video card anyway (i will buy geforce 3 ti 200 or radeon 8500 depending on which 1 is cheaper then, and assuming radeon drivers are ok by then) so its not that big of a problem