I personally reckon that AMD chips have a shorter life expectancy than Intel - round about 3 years. If you have a really old one, then I'd get a replacement soon as they're stopping making socket A chips real soon now (:
Steve On Thu, October 6, 2005 6:02 pm, Richard Tindall wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > >>I think I might start with reseating the power connections and cpu? >> >> > I'll switch off the system, which runs for hours on end most days quite > happily, & consider these.. > > Reboot _always_ works; hdd has never looked like it's lost power once. > CPU is at its coldest when the mouse-touch or heavy foot takes the > system down; CPU keeps running once 'hot'. > > A more solid desk looks like the obvious fix. > > Cheers, Rik > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
