James grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Just had a friend walk in so I asked him... He had the same problem
> and it was because the CPU fan had gotten worn down and wasn't cooling
> the CPU as well as it used to (plus a lot of the k-6 fans were flaky
> to start) His suggestion is to (his words not mine) open up the case
> stick a destop fan blowing into the box. If that changes the time
> before it crokes... it's the fan. Or if you don't want such a crude
> test get one of the cylindrical(sp?) fans on the market now put it in
> and try it out that way. Fans cheaper and easier to find than a k-6
> mobo these days.
I know. :-) I'm dreading having to track down a new motherboard for this
beast, although as I progress further and further, it's looking more and
more likely. FWIW, the BIOS has not been reporting abnormally high
tempratures on the CPU. The 350MHz one I have in their currently is
running around 109 degrees F, which isn't that bad.
I've got all three DIMM (I can't believe I've been saying SIMM all this
time - argh!) slots populated at the present time. I'm going to start
pulling them one at a time and see if the problem goes away. I've had
really good results with Memtest-86 in the past, so I don't seriously think
it's a DIMM module. But I want to be complete in my testing....
Especially before I have to track down a new motherboard.
--Dave
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