Monitor having "No input"

[Thomas 'Leroy' Crof]

have you vacuuming the computer from dust like in the graphiccard Fan? 

As far as I could reach! There's a whole cap for it so I didn't manage to get into it (would have to take the card out, then take the entire cap off, open it, put it back together, putting it back on the card, putting the card back; WITHOUT damaging anything).

[Salmonella]

As mentioned before : It sounds like it overheats. People in here are only suggesting to take out the dust... Thats not very helpfull in the first place because it doesn't sound like your PC attracts a lot of that. You probably should refresh the coolpaste on your CPU / heatsink. It does sound more like it's a graphic card problem though.. Refreshing coolpaste on a CPU can be very easy for people with not a lot of experience with computers.. But doing this on your graphics card is a different, smart but yet more difficult phenomenom. I myself do it once every 3 months or so to keep temperatures as low as possible.

In regular / average shit videocards like yours, there's ussually only one processor, which makes it easier to apply coolpaste / clean it than more complicated cards such as my GTX295

This, and a surrounding PCB is probably what you'll have to apply coolpaste on with your graphics card :



So be happy you wont have to do what i do :

[Julio.]

Download EVGA Precision from THIS website.

You'll get a screen up which looks like this:

IF this utility can control your fan speed, you will be able to click the 'Auto' Button down the bottom right, and change the fan speed manually.

At this point you can either choose to just keep your GPU's fan at 90 percent or something, OR you can set up a curve in the settings, so as the temperature goes up, the fan speed will too.


My Computer used to overheat, and by changing my settings so my fan would spin quicker, it no longer shuts down.

My setup with the graph in 'Settings' - Shown by the spanner, and then the 'Fan' Tab at the top of the menu that shows up:

[Thomas 'Leroy' Crof]

Great! I used to be able to run in windowed mode (with slight lag, but it was this or not playing at all), but now it also "crashes" in windowed mode... "No input" --> Black screen!

EDIT:
I installed SpeedFan.

[Lionel Valdes]

In PlayStation 2, when the temperature is high, nothing happens. It functions perfectly!

I have Windows XP (purshased in 2006), I have many games including ArmA series. I play them smoothly.



(PS: Oh Yes, if you were wondering, I'm back.)

[Julio.]

What were you doing at that moment?

72 degrees is fairly high if you were not doing a lot.

Also, if you switched from doing a lot to not doing much, the temperature should come down quickly, not slowly.

Read what I put above, if it work's it'll fix it.

[Salmonella]

72 is a very high temperature especially for a GT230. I don't know what you were doing at THAT moment but I think it is a little higher when the screen goes blank for you. Other cards can run with higher temperatures.. My GTX295 reached 90 degrees celcius once ( Crsysis ) And didn't turn off. If i were you i'd get RivaTuner and turn up the GPU fan to 75 percent.

Rivatuner is free, you can download it somewhere and look for tutorials on ''how to change fan speed'' at google or something.

I'm also re-directing you to my previous post :

As mentioned before : It sounds like it overheats. People in here are only suggesting to take out the dust... Thats not very helpfull in the first place because it doesn't sound like your PC attracts a lot of that. You probably should refresh the coolpaste on your CPU / heatsink. It does sound more like it's a graphic card problem though.. Refreshing coolpaste on a CPU can be very easy for people with not a lot of experience with computers.. But doing this on your graphics card is a different, smart but yet more difficult phenomenom. I myself do it once every 3 months or so to keep temperatures as low as possible.

In regular / average shit videocards like yours, there's ussually only one processor, which makes it easier to apply coolpaste / clean it than more complicated cards such as my GTX295

This, and a surrounding PCB is probably what you'll have to apply coolpaste on with your graphics card :



So be happy you wont have to do what i do :

[Thomas 'Leroy' Crof]

What were you doing at that moment?

72 degrees is fairly high if you were not doing a lot.

Also, if you switched from doing a lot to not doing much, the temperature should come down quickly, not slowly.

The scary part, was that only SpeedFan was running and even after half an hour, the temperature only dropped two degrees!


My brother took out my videocard and took the entire cap off, cleaned it and put it back. He also cleaned every other fan completely, except for my power feed fan.

PC runs at around 52C (may differ 1 or 2 degrees) average, while idle.

[Webster]

I've the same problem as you, but mine does not like show weird messages, but turns off right away after playing 10-15 minutes.

I've been monitoring my temperature while gaming.Games like Black ops or ArmA do not make it overheat.But when I played GTA IV today for the first time..DAYM, It was like an airport here with a gigantic plane taking off.

Here are my specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.20GHz
ATI Radeon HD 6800
1TB HDD
6GB DDR3 RAM

Im planning on getting 2 case fans this friday.

[Julio.]

Download a program to control the speed of the fans like EVGA Precision, set it to run on strtup, make a setup so the fans RUN FASTER on the GPU all the time.

Not a massive issue really, if this doesn't help try Salmonellas method too, then again, it's probably a good idea to do Sals method every so often anyway.

We know that your card is not dispersing heat quick enough, so basically do anything that will cool it down.

[Thomas 'Leroy' Crof]

I would advise you to open your case and make sure you clean the fan of the GPU. Mine was completely full of dust and it solved the problem by sucking it out.


 Thanks everyone, for helping!

[Webster]

Well I am downloading evga precision, and later on I am going to clean it fully.


EDIT: Jesus christ, after cleaning it up, only the CPU lowered the overheating to 57C from 63C, but the Graphic card went up to 90C so I quickly turned off IVMP so It doesn't explode.

EDIT2: I installed SpeedFan to check out on my fan speed, and this is how fast my fans go without playing any game



EDIT3: I keep getting an error when trying to open up EVGA Precision, I reinstalled it several times, still the same error.

[Thomas 'Leroy' Crof]

Temp3 is frozen... -128C.. Dude, are you playing in Siberia or something?

Also, after I cleaned my GPU my Temp1 was 98C all the time... Didn't change once within 50 minutes. Restarted the PC and it was fixed

[Julio.]

Webster, bear in Mind that EVGA Precision is only for Nvidia Graphics cards, I'm sure ATI have their own, that may be your issue if you do not have an Nvidia card.

[Webster]

Temp3 is frozen... -128C.. Dude, are you playing in Siberia or something?

Also, after I cleaned my GPU my Temp1 was 98C all the time... Didn't change once within 50 minutes. Restarted the PC and it was fixed

How can I fix Temp3?