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krazy · 02-18-2004, 01:03 PM

I'd flash to the latest version if you haven't already.

This is probably not necessaary to ask, but are you sure you've got sufficient cooling on everything? A buddy of mine built a new machine for another bussy of ours' parents. It ran great, but would crash and reboot at random, and more often when being used for gaming. It turns out the case fans simply couldn't get much air through the machine, causing it to run too hot and get glitchy. When I moved the tower out of the little computer desk cabinet thing and built a duct to channel the flow of an extra 80mm fan to blow into the bottom two PCI slot holes, it suddenly ran like a champ.

02-18-2004, 01:03 PM	#3
krazy Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Posts: 123	I'd flash to the latest version if you haven't already. This is probably not necessaary to ask, but are you sure you've got sufficient cooling on everything? A buddy of mine built a new machine for another bussy of ours' parents. It ran great, but would crash and reboot at random, and more often when being used for gaming. It turns out the case fans simply couldn't get much air through the machine, causing it to run too hot and get glitchy. When I moved the tower out of the little computer desk cabinet thing and built a duct to channel the flow of an extra 80mm fan to blow into the bottom two PCI slot holes, it suddenly ran like a champ. __________________ Abit NF7-S ... xp1800+ ... Abit GF4ti4200 ... Maxtor 120gb SATA150 Currently gathering parts to water cool everything! (read about the project)