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eatingrich · May 10, 2008, 08:02 AM

Hello everyone,

I've finally upgraded my graphics card to about the level I'm happy with for now - a 7300GT 256 AGP card.

At first when I put it in it said it wasn't receiving enough power so kept me on a low resolution. I looked up the manual, realised what was wrong and found a spare cable from the power supply to plug directly into it, and when I rebooted it was fine.

I tested Morrowind on it, played around for a bit then turned off.

I've turned back on now and when I was loading up various things, Firefox, Dreamweaver, AVG and so on, suddenly the PC started humming really loudly, like the fan really kicked in. It's been like that since, for about 20-30 minutes now.

The PC hasn't shut down or anything, but I'm paranoid that the card needs more power or something. My power supply model is ENCA ATX 400W. Is that enough?

It didn't occur to me about the power supply really until I bought the card. I'd have thought if an error message came up initially when it didn't have enough power it'd do the same now wouldn't it?

I'm surprised (unpleasantly!) by the increase in sound coming from my PC but I'd rather that than it break down!

Any advice greatly welcomed!

Celeron 2.66ghz CPU
1GB RAM
Above mentioned graphics card
80GB Hard drive
ASUS P4S800 Mobo.

May 10, 2008, 08:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
eatingrich DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 129	How to tell if your card/PC is going to overheat - using 7300GT Hello everyone, I've finally upgraded my graphics card to about the level I'm happy with for now - a 7300GT 256 AGP card. At first when I put it in it said it wasn't receiving enough power so kept me on a low resolution. I looked up the manual, realised what was wrong and found a spare cable from the power supply to plug directly into it, and when I rebooted it was fine. I tested Morrowind on it, played around for a bit then turned off. I've turned back on now and when I was loading up various things, Firefox, Dreamweaver, AVG and so on, suddenly the PC started humming really loudly, like the fan really kicked in. It's been like that since, for about 20-30 minutes now. The PC hasn't shut down or anything, but I'm paranoid that the card needs more power or something. My power supply model is ENCA ATX 400W. Is that enough? It didn't occur to me about the power supply really until I bought the card. I'd have thought if an error message came up initially when it didn't have enough power it'd do the same now wouldn't it? I'm surprised (unpleasantly!) by the increase in sound coming from my PC but I'd rather that than it break down! Any advice greatly welcomed! Celeron 2.66ghz CPU 1GB RAM Above mentioned graphics card 80GB Hard drive ASUS P4S800 Mobo. __________________ Intel P4 3ghz CPU - 8kb primary cache - 512kb secondary cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P4S800 REV 1.xx Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS P4S800 ACPI BIOS Revision 1009 06/08/2004 756GB RAM - PC3200 DDR 76GB HDD - IBM-DTLA-307075 80GB HDD - Maxtor 6Y080L0 - Slave Drive (both NTFS) NVIDIA 7300GT 256MB AGP 8x Graphics Card SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio (Onboard!)