Graphics card.

[AK]

Quick question .

Installed a graphics card into my NAS and when I watch something, every so often, normally when there's white playing, there's some vertical lines that appears.

Graphics card broken? Not installed right?

 

[iain187]

Got latest drivers?

 

[AK]

Yeah, they're all on I'm sure. Will double check in case.

 

[Munson]

You won't be able to tell just by looking inside it

 

[AK]

.

 

[Jay_A]

Overheating?

 

[iChris]

sounds like the dvi connection might be a little loose, the cables broken and have a loose connection (give it a wiggle see what happens) or the cards getting to hot and falling on its arse.

 

[Christopher]

Pizza crust lodged in the DVI?

 

[Silent_Scone]

prolly duff cable, change that first or check it's not loose

 

[AK]

Tried a different cable, still doing it.

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No pizza crust.

 

[Munson]

Pics?

 

[The Fatty]

It coult be a dodgy connection inside the computer (PCI slot), overheating casuing the GPU to become unsoldered for a second, underpowering due to a secondary power supply to the gfx card not bing connected, or perminant damage to the gfx card like a dry joint or cracked pcb track. Alternantively it could just be an incompatability between your monitor and the gfx card; have you tried lowering the resolution and also trying it on a different monitor (such as your tv maybe if you dont have another pc monitor)?

 

[Silent_Scone]

Take it out and blow on the gold contacts and inside the PCIE slot. If it's still playing up it's prolly fooked

 

[Cliotoby]

Firmware update? Cable?

ABF to read this thread so sorry if already been mentioned.

 

[ElusiveHB]

Sounds warm. Cool it better and see if it still happens.

 

[conneh]

Declock the memory slightly.

 

[AK]

Now you're talking completely different language.

 

[iain187]

have you got another desktop you can stick the gfx card in ?

 

[z8jay]

Shitty power supply?

 

[AK]

have you got another desktop you can stick the gfx card in ?

I don't mate, unfortunately.

 

[conneh]

I would say its 95% likely to be the memory fucked. Send it back / download EVGA tuner. When you have that installed, underclock the RAM slightly and turn the fan control up to 100%.

 

[Munson]

TBH there's such limited information here that it could be a number of things.

It's like expecting actual William Wallace to explain a problem with his computer

 

[BigDaveRotary]

Just slightly off topic.... I thought a NAS (Network Attached Storage) was just an array of hard drives? I am not too sure why you would put a graphics card in one?

 

[iain187]

some people build small pc's with big hard drives, share it over the network and call it a nas. i guess AK is just trying to play things from his locally via a nearby tv or something...

 

[AK]

Yeah. It is a NAS, but it's got a graphics card in it for now as the plan was to utilise Raspberry PI and stream in 1080p, but there's only been limited stock of them released to date. Got one on back order though.

 

[AK]

TBH there's such limited information here that it could be a number of things.

It's like expecting actual William Wallace to explain a problem with his computer

Lol! I know . I'll take it out at the weekend and check connectors etc first, lol.

 

[BigDaveRotary]

Ahhh thats awesome