On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:14 am, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
> I doubt it is a memory problem. I am no hardware expert but had my
> share of misc. hardware problems and never had or heard of faulty
> memory causing immediate lock-ups.
Okay, just to be clear, the immediate (2 minutes or less) lockup is with
cpuburn only - normally the system sits and runs for hours and hours. Some
games segfault out (and the time varies there).
> I agree with the docs which suggest either bad cooling (fan, bad heat
> dissipation, ...) or bad power supply (power supply unit, connector,
> motherboard, ...) are probably causes.
>
> Ronald, what kind of power supply do you have? 230W, 300W? (or
> whatever is standard where you come from ;)
A less than 3 months old 350 watt power supply.
> Agreed. A good test (not for the faint-hearted :-) is to run with open
> case and use a hair-dryer or alike (on "cool" setting - or whatever
> that might be called) in direction of the CPU and see if it makes a
> difference in how long it needs until the CPU locks up.
I think I will try running with the case off to see if it does make a
difference.
> HTH,
>
> Benjamin.
Thanks for the advice!
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