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| 93553 | 2002-10-27 18:48:00 | I Have an AMD 2000xp , MSI K7T266 Pro2-A , Gforce4 440 Graphics card. After playing most of the latest games (Warcraft3 Morrowind SOF2) the games just freeze after about 2 -10 minutes and when playing using XP games just reset computer. Reading online forum here seem to be a problem with NVIDIA driver and AMP XP CPU's.By setting the FSB clock back to 100MHz seem to solve this problem but cpu is now running at 1250MHZ.This seem to defeat to purpose of having a fast chip.Temp of cpu is usually about 40 deg and I have have a Chassis fan to remove any heat build up. Any other suggestions. Is the P4 having the same problems |
kbappl (2362) | ||
| 93554 | 2002-10-27 22:22:00 | sounds more like a heat prob. drivers don't normally cause lookups after a period of time, either they don't work or crash on a certain scene. was that temp taken at idle? what is the case temp? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 93555 | 2002-10-28 00:26:00 | Thanks for your reply. System temp 32deg and CPU 37. This is after playing warcraft 3 for 3 hrs with CPU FSB set at 100Mhz. As soon as I retun FSB to 133 it crashes pretty well straight away.I seem to have no problems using Word Excel etc infact I used it for over 5 hrs without any problems than as soon as I loaded Warcraft3 it had frozen within a couple on minutes. I have used computer with side panel off with a 12" personal fan blowing into it. | kbappl (2362) | ||
| 93556 | 2002-10-28 01:06:00 | i havn't had the problem myself so...... check for updated motherboard drivers. i would also check ram timings and bios settup. what video card drivers are you useing? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 93557 | 2002-10-28 01:51:00 | Thanks again. Ive downloaded latest bios and Nvidia drivers. Ram timing are defaults for board . | kbappl (2362) | ||
| 93558 | 2002-10-28 03:13:00 | Hi I have a similar problem with my Athlon 1.4G. It was running quite hot for a while (up to 60 degrees) before I got a better heatsink and fan. I don't know if that damaged the CPU but now I can't run stably at 133FSB. Very stable at 100Megs but slow as. I low-level formatted and reinstalled everything (XP pro) to no avail so assume I have a hardware problem. The mnotherboard is another poss I guess. Have you reinstalled? Have you got access to another CPU to try out? I even tried Linux which wasn't stable for long either!! good luck |
drsteve (1777) | ||
| 93559 | 2002-10-28 04:34:00 | makes me wonder if you have some thermal paste shorting the cpu bridges?????? | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 93560 | 2002-10-28 22:18:00 | you may have to adjust your bios settings, set ram at a lower cas level try AGP 2x turn etc also use the latest XP compaitable drivers for your graphics card | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 93561 | 2002-10-28 23:55:00 | Thanks Guys, By replacing the Nvidia drivers with WHQL drivers???? this has certainy made computer at least usable for most of the time. |
kbappl (2362) | ||
| 93562 | 2002-10-29 00:51:00 | Ummm... a little OT, but if i DO have thermal paste shorting the CPU (theoretically) ... is it possible to remove it without damaging the CPU? Oh and what are WHQL drivers?? Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
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