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At 12:27 PM 08/26/2002, Bill Wynne wrote:
>>If anybody has ideas as to why my system just freezes, I'd love to
>>hear from.
I had a system like that. The symptom was that after an unpredictable amount of time, but usually when doing something, like browsing the Internet, the system would just freeze. No mouse movement, no nothing. After a reboot it would be okay for a while again.
Fortunately, I had an identical system next to it, and I could swap the disk cage. The problem remained with the original system when I did. So, it truly was a motherboard problem and not software.
It turned out to be that the CPU was overheating because of improper heat sinking. I started to suspect this when I took the heat sink off and saw the top face of the CPU had turned blue from being too hot.
I got a little thermal heatsink compound (the white goop) and smeared some in there, and have had no problem since. Radio Shack might have it in stock. Don't use too much.
Mike G.
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