Hi all,
Recently I bought a Gainward 9800GT Bliss 1024MB Golden Sample card, which I installed in my system. Since installing this, my Silverstone case often rings like an alarm sound for about 2 minutes before powering down. When the system powers down by itself, I cannot reboot my PC for a little while.
The Silverstone case that I have is a TJ05 with temperature monitoring and a little LCD in the front. The problem is that I do not know how to tie the sensors down to the place where they are supposed to go (I have not tried using sellotape, as I believe that this would cause the sellotape to melt with the high temperatures of the PC’s internal parts). Also as soon as I place back the case upright or close the side panel that temperature sensors fall out of their positions. This is another reason why I would like to have some sort of tie that could be used to affix the sensors in their correct position.
Currently:
- The CPU sensor is positioned in the Intel processor’s cooling blades that came with the Retail version of the processor.
- The "Sys" sensor is placed in the heat pipe dispersal of the Graphic card (between the heat pipe and the graphic card's cooling fan).
- The "HDD" sensor is just resting on top of one of the two HDD drives that I have.
Because I was getting too much of these power down, I took out the temperature sensor marked as "sys" away from the graphics card, and left aside so that it does not touch any warm part of the computer. This has resulted in the disappearance of the alarm sound from the case, until I started replaying an older game, namely Oblivion (with all the settings maxed out as the new graphics card should be able to handle this, and it does do just that too).
Note that my Graphics card is set to the factory settings, and I have not tweaked it in any way or form.
Something else I have tried doing is to use the "Expert tool" that is installed by the Gainward NVidia driver. Setting the fan control of the graphic card's to the maximum fixed speed (hence on 100%). Also I have set the performance option to "safe mode Setting" as soon as the case alarm starts ringing, but this does very little to stop the case alarm from ringing. The only way I can stop the case from shutting down while playing the game while the case alarm is ringing is to bring up the in-game menu, as less graphics are required, and the alarms stops.
I do not know what to do anymore. Perhaps I should invest into buying more internal fan, however I do not know which ones I need to get to fit within the standard case's optional fan compartment. The Silverstone's case user guide gives no information whatsoever about what fans I should get for the optional fan positions, nor the size of the fans I should get. I don't even know if the fans need to be of the fixed speed variety or not. All I managed to find out from the Silverstone web site is that only fans with 3 power connector should be used. However I do want to have a quiet system, or as quiet as I possibly can with additional fans.
Would anyone have a suggestions or solutions to my problems?