Cooling question

[SmurfATL]

Ok kids here are the specs

3 40gig UDMA 100 maxtor hard drives
1 Abit BF6 mobo
1 Pentium 3 866mhz @ 866mhz (about to be more when i get my heatsink)
2 256mb Micron pc133
1 Asus GeForce2 MX (32mb)w/tv out
1 EDiGi PX-300 wat ATX power supply
1 NEC 8x4x32 CDR/RW burner
3 case fans in my an InWin Q-500 supertower
OS Windows 98 (3 month install)

now.. My computer seems to be overheating somewhere, here is what is happening

The first problem i had was when my hard drives would power up after idling, my computer would freeze, so i made it so my hard drives never turn off. (could this be a power issue?)

It worked fine for awhile, but now my computer seems to be overheating somewhere. When my box idles for a certain amout of time without a big ass fan blowing on it, the video locks up (may just be a freeze, may be video card, i dont know) Sometimes it happens when i close a CD that is burning.

I have the latest firmware and bios upgrades for all of my hardware (UDMA100 controller mobo and vid card) and obviously the latest drivers.

I have stock cooling on everything,

I ordered 3 ultraslim HD coolers for my hard drives, A Heatsink/fan combo for my p3,and a Vantec chipset cooling kit.

This is what i'm planning to do with the vantec cooling kit

Put the cooling fan on my Video card,

Now, i need a good place to put 2 of the heat sinks, i'm thinking maybe the southbridge? The UDMA 100 controller? Is there anything else i should consider putting a heat spreader on? (there is no room for a fan on my northbridge cuz of my CPU heatsink/fan)

I need some feedback here please, I want to know if there is anything else i could try to solve this problem, or should what i ordered cover me?

Suggestions would be a great help to me

 

[TheHorta]

Just a thought, because I've seen it happen before, but do you have your case fans properly directed? Are the intakes taking in and the exhausts exhausting properly? I'm not sure whether you mentioned it or not, but you do have an HSF, even if it's stock, on your PIII right? Also check to make sure your HS Fan is running all the time and that all of your case fans are running. Also make sure that you're not running any type of "power saving" features on your system with the exception of maybe the monitors because some of them shut the CPU fan off as well.

Other than that, I'm an idiot of little help who is always willing to show just how little I know.

 

[SmurfATL]

Yesh, i currently have a HSF for my processor, It is the one that came with the retail version of the 866.

But the power settings in my bios, i have not checked those.

* Smurf looks *

 

[SmurfATL]

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