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24814	2001-11-18 04:00:00	My computer regularly locks up and Heroes of might and magic locks up on the fight sequences. It is virtually unplayable because of crashing. My computer crashed and burnt at christmas. The apparent survivers were the network card, the CPU (Celeron 400), the Creative TNT video card and the 64 megs of memeory. Everything (apart from the case) was replaced. However my network never worked until I replaced the network card so it must have been slightly 'wounded'. The lockups became a lot less when I replaced the RAM so I have doubts about whether it too was wounded but not quite fatally. The question now arises about the video and CPU. I have swapped to a PIII 450 CPU and the lockups still occur. While fiddling I noticed that the heat sink on the video card is very hot, almost too hot to touch!! My suspicion now is that the video card is overheating and crashing the machine. My question is: Would a slighlty cooked card (assuming it survived the christmas meltdown but got damaged) overheat, or could the overheating be caused by the new motheroard? One thought that crossed my mind is that the board is being overclocked somehow. Presumeably it should be at 33MHz but how can I check this out?	Guest (0)
24815	2001-11-18 04:28:00	If your cpu speed is software controlled you should be able to find out what its set at in your cmos settings. Hit del on bootup then look for cpu settings. As for the lockups, not sure what would be causing them but overheating could be the cause, but bear in mind video cards can get hot, especially ones with just a heatsink and no fan. My Voodoo3 gets very hot but still works fine.	Guest (0)
24816	2001-11-18 04:31:00	Hi ian, go to http://www.h-oda.com/ and download WCPUID it will tell you what sort of cpu is installed what speed it is running at, bus speeds, clock multipliers, the works. Good Luck, JM	Guest (0)
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