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| 244342 | 2004-06-14 10:38:00 | No one's answered the query as to how to check if programs are conflicting! The only thing I can think of is to disable most all of the running programs except for AOE using msconfig, if the system doesn't crash, then re-enable one by one until the crashing starts up again, but if the crashing still occurs when most programs are disabled then it may be a hardware problem. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 244343 | 2004-06-14 10:46:00 | Is disabling them through msconfig going to screw it up in anyway, or are the affects completely reversible? I mean completely, absolutely 110% I dont want to kill all Dads work. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 244344 | 2004-06-14 10:56:00 | You should most definitly back up important files before doing any work on a system,but yes the first thing i would do is disable every single item under msconfig>startup and then reboot and run the game,if all is fine your halfway home. That is of course if your ignoring heat as the potential issue. |
metla (154) | ||
| 244345 | 2004-06-14 11:03:00 | If PC1 is "crashing" when it reaches 70 deg it may be a setting in the bios that shuts the PC down at that temp. | Davesdad (923) | ||
| 244346 | 2004-06-15 02:23:00 | > Well, I don't think there is a chance of getting a > new/more fans/heatsink whatever. Prove the point: take the case off and blow a desk fan through to keep things cool. Then monitor the temperature while you play your games and see if you get 70 degrees or a shutdown. I'd do this before I mucked around with a parental computer Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 244347 | 2004-06-15 02:49:00 | While the cover is off, before turning the fan on, play your game until the temperature is shown as 70°C,then press your finger on the CPU heatsink. If you can hold your finger on it for more than a second, it's not 70°. :D I'd be concerned at a true 70° --- but the sensors and monitoring software aren't precision thermometric instruments. Unless they have been calibrated they are "indicators" at best. Ofcourse, in a few years you'll need pyrometers, not thermometers, to measure computer temperatures. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 244348 | 2004-06-15 03:01:00 | Thats just silly,i can hold my finger on something thats over 70 degrees easily. | metla (154) | ||
| 244349 | 2004-06-15 03:19:00 | I can, if I use the fingertip I use for wiping my soldering iron tip, but most people can't. Perhaps your thermometer is wrong. It's a standard test in electronics: one second for 70°C. A burnt tattoo of the map of Texas means a (Texas Instruments) TTL chip was too hot. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 244350 | 2004-06-15 03:30:00 | Just done lots of hotwork over the years, having said that my hands aren't in the same shape they were a few years ago. Still, I could hold my finger on a hot surface until I melted,...Not that such a course of action would be particularly clever. |
metla (154) | ||
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