Jack, I've got experience with KT133 and KT266A, AMD athlons. I've researched it for about 2 years, and the consensus is overwhelmingly that what AMD says about cpu temps is wrong in practical terms. As my own experience (and that of many others) shows conclusively, anything over 45C. is going to cause problems. Most AMD users who are knowlegable will not tolerate anything over 45C. This is the number one cause of random odd problems with AMD systems. If your cpu is really running at 60C., you have a major, major heat problem. I would immediately do something about cooling both the case air with a ducting modification, better case fans, and a better heatsink/fan for the cpu. Robert Crawford
On Saturday 26 October 2002 06:36 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and > which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will > suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. > > FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset. > Athlon 900 MHz > 768MB PC100 RAM > Voodoo3 3000 AGP card > Maxtor 92049U6 (20G 7200 RPM disk), etx3fs on all partitions. > Polaroid CD-RW IDE3212 > (2) Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX PCI tulip NICs > > The system runs MDK 9.0 and ran 8.2 before that. I keep an eye on it > with lm_sensors, and it doesn't go over 60C, so I've tentatively ruled > CPU heat out as a cause. I've also run memtest86 several times for runs > of up to 12 hours, with no RAM problems detected. > > today's reboot was caused by a corrupt wtmp that prevented logins. fsck > fixed it. > > At this point, I'm suspecting the motherboard's IDE controller, the hard > disk itself, the video card, the RAM, gremlins :-) I'm just not sure > where to go next in troubleshooting the system, and I don't want to > replace everything one part at a time. > > any ideas for narrowing this down?
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