On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:19 pm, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > > * AKDT]:
[snip] > Make sure you've got very clean power, excellent cooling, and a good > high-wattage power supply. I've had trouble with most of the dual > Tyan boards shutting themselves down or worse, frying themselves. > Putting the machines in a climate controlled room (65 degrees) on > conditioned power has been the only solution. > I used a 400W PSU instead of the min-spec 300W, stuck an extra fan in the case and was fairly liberal with the thermal grease. So far, no problems even in an 80+ degree room. All my machines are sitting on the clean side of a fairly chunky UPS, so I have no idea of how sensitive they are to dirty power, though I'd suspect that using an over-rated PSU deals with a fair chunk of that. > I've found the dual Pentium boards to be more stable and less > finicky, and I'll probably buy those from now on after the trouble > I've had with Tyan dual Athlon chipsets. > My experience has been the other way round - my previous machine was a Tyan dual P3 and it needed a lot of BIOS twiddling to get it stable. No experience with dual P4s though. > YMMV, Likewise ;-) - Derek > > Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]