the most common cause of random freezing is bad capacitors on the mother board bad ones usually bulge up or leak a crystalizing liquid.
If you have an MSI board made with tiwanese caps this is the problem. Don't be discouraged from trying to recap your board I have had 100% success trying just be slow and careful and do a few practice solders most of the time you can get away with just replacing the bad ones. On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Matt Garman wrote: > > > I'm hesitant to try this, only because the lockups are so random. > > It's been almost two weeks since it last happened; I have a feeling > > that I could get lucky and it won't happen again forever (or it > > could happen in the next five minutes). Either way, it's hard to > > determine the solution when I make a change and then just wait. > > Other possible causes of lockups and/or crashes: > > Bad RAM (boot the memtest image from an install CD to check). > > Not enough cooling - check fans all work. checl heatsinks on CPU - replace > with better ones (copper base?) if they seem to be very very hot. > > -- > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
