Spec: 1.1 TBird, ECS K7VZA, WD 10GB, NEC 7500 CD-R, Panasonic 8582 DVD, 256MB SDRAM (Not generic), Intel etherexpress 10/100, Innovision Tornado 3d (GeF 2 mx 400, 64MB), s3 virge (dont know manuf.), 300W power.
Made the box in September or so.. experienced lockups after coming back from 100% CPU use and cpu temp> 120 or so. In Oct/Nov, got some arctic silver and re sink-ed it, and put in 300W PS (was 250) which kept peak temps ~120-125 and seemed to stop the lockup. It now occurs again, since I moved back to school 3 weeks ago. Can be prevented by putting a floor fan on the box when running at 100%, which keeps temps to ~110. Lockup is easy to recreate by running dnet.c for about 5 minutes.. then just closing it. Sometimes system will emit high pitched beep, sometimes one monitor will go off, sometimes it just locks up (HD light solid in all cases). I added the s3 in november and it hasn't seemed to change anything. It seems temperature related (obviously), but i cant quite figure out what it is about going from 100 - 0 CPU at heat that freezes it, or how to fix it without using a floor fan.
Any ideas?
Made the box in September or so.. experienced lockups after coming back from 100% CPU use and cpu temp> 120 or so. In Oct/Nov, got some arctic silver and re sink-ed it, and put in 300W PS (was 250) which kept peak temps ~120-125 and seemed to stop the lockup. It now occurs again, since I moved back to school 3 weeks ago. Can be prevented by putting a floor fan on the box when running at 100%, which keeps temps to ~110. Lockup is easy to recreate by running dnet.c for about 5 minutes.. then just closing it. Sometimes system will emit high pitched beep, sometimes one monitor will go off, sometimes it just locks up (HD light solid in all cases). I added the s3 in november and it hasn't seemed to change anything. It seems temperature related (obviously), but i cant quite figure out what it is about going from 100 - 0 CPU at heat that freezes it, or how to fix it without using a floor fan.
Any ideas?