James, If the chassis ventilation is poor, and the on-chip fan dies, overheating is very possible. When the CPU overheats it causes problems that show up as just about anything. Memory access and illegal instruction errors are the most common, but anything is possible when the data/code/addresses being processed are wrong.
If the CPU overheats often enough, or for long enough, you'll have to replace it -- and if it's really bad, possibly the whole mobo -- you can get lifted traces if it gets too hot. ~~Garry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "James W Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:58 PM Subject: [SURVPC] processor fan > What symptoms would you expect if the fan on the > processor does not work. I am trying to figure out > why this 366 Mhz Cyrix e-machine with Windows > 98 keeps making errors. They seem to be memory > allocation errors. > > Thank you. > Jim Fuller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
