Author: Andrew Slough
Date: 18:13:50 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 08:55:35, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >On September 01, 1999 at 15:27:42, Zachariah Amela wrote: > >>The statement "Windows crashes" is the understatement of the year. But >>seriously, that is an odd one. >> >>The PC rebooting could mean that you need to "upgrade" the BIOS. As to the >>fatal error, there are so many different reasons why Windows can poop out like >>that. I've always tracked it down to one of three things though: >>1.) Bad SIMM. (Rarely) >>2.) Corrupt file. (Quite Often) >>3.) Version incompatible w/ component files. Almost, never fails to be the >>problem. > >It could as well be an overheating problem (a tournament is putting the CPU >under severe strain) so that one could consider to get a better cooler or/and >use a CPU software cooler (a program that powers down the CPU when in idle) . > >On the other side I had similar problems with 2 different PC's, but my >impression was that the problms were coming from the Winboard engines. > >regards >Franz I have been running an AMD K6-2 400 since the beginning of the year. AMD chips do seem to run hot. Try running it at 300Mhz and if it becomes more reliable then you'll know it was the heat. Andy
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