On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Robert Crawford wrote: > To eliminate overheating as the source of the problem, take off the side of > your case, and blow a desktop fan onto the internals while using the machine > for a few hours. If the problems go away, you know it's cooling problems- if > not, you have other problems. From what you've said, and my own experience, > your system and/or cpu is probably overheating. Try cleaning out the dust, > and check the contact of your heatsink/cpu- the contact grease will > eventually go dry and lose heat transfer capability, and need to be redone. > Use Artic silver, or another high quality "grease." All your symtoms are > classic overheating problems.
I like Arctic Alumina (available from Arctic Silver), which is nicely non-conductive. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
