> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall
... > Depends on the chipset. If the Athlon has a KT-333*, KT-400 or Nforce > 2 motherboard, that's not true. (* a couple of really cheap KT-333's > missed the protection, but no major brand names). True... and if the first shutdown was because of the overheat protection, it should have been willing to start later. I should have thought of this, since the machine I was fussing with all weekend has the KT-333 set. > In any case, with any processor it's worth setting the heat > protection is the BIOS on. As a note, if you have a SBLive! card, it > can be worth adding cooling to that (I put an small old CPU fan > designed I think for a K6 on it with double sided thermal tape..not > wonderful, but adequate for THAT job). In my travels around the web learning about cooling, I also saw suggestions for fins on memory, adding thermal grease to the heatsink on the chip set itself, etc., etc. I did a little work a while ago with the demo god at Intel, the guy who creates all the demos for the top execs. Now *he* knows cooling. His lab has a tank of liquid nitrogen... Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
