The amount of posts and replies I have got on here has been great the last couple of months and I have appreciated everyone's advice, especially those who actually took the time to read my post and give me a reasonable option unlike those just showing off their knowledge of a certain situation instead of actually helping.
Ontop of the 130 quid i spent to buy a brand new athlon xp 2100+ and fan I have spent 150 quid trying to solve the problem that kept causing the crashes i was getting at 1.73ghz. I even asked many many times are people sure taht it was the overheating cos i wasnt convinced .. they kept saying yes so I bought a brand new case and a brand new heatsink and fan...and low and behold my case is a lot cooler...but keeps crashing. it still runs up to about 57 -60 degrees when under heavy load but I doubt thats enough to keep it crashing just like it did at 73 degrees.(celsius btw)
What annoys me is noone ever offered me an alternative solution besides cooling. now I am stuck without any idea of what to do nearly nearly 300 quid out of pocket with a crashing pc to show for it. why cant pc's ever be simple. I couldnt really afford the fan and case but did it because i thought it would rectify the problem and be worth it in the long run, boy was I wrong.
Please can someone help me out its been like 2 months and Im jsut getting sick and tired of it.
im on win98
512 pc133 ram athlon xp2100+(stock settings)
with an AX7 heatsink with a Panaflo 80mm fan
Chieftek Scorpio TX Case
Asus Geforce 3
Asus A7A266-E lates bios rev 1011
Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm
It only crashes when running a game (it didnt crash running madonions 3dmark2000)
I seriously doubt that its the heat causing the problem when running at 1.3ghz
(underclocked it doesnt crash but can still reach temperatures of about 70+ degrees (based on previous AMD stock fan))
so why would it crash at only 60 degrees now?
it jsut doesnt add up and I am not knowledgable about such things that i can provide a solution.
I beg of anyone who may have a solution to help me out please.
thanks for your time
Ontop of the 130 quid i spent to buy a brand new athlon xp 2100+ and fan I have spent 150 quid trying to solve the problem that kept causing the crashes i was getting at 1.73ghz. I even asked many many times are people sure taht it was the overheating cos i wasnt convinced .. they kept saying yes so I bought a brand new case and a brand new heatsink and fan...and low and behold my case is a lot cooler...but keeps crashing. it still runs up to about 57 -60 degrees when under heavy load but I doubt thats enough to keep it crashing just like it did at 73 degrees.(celsius btw)
What annoys me is noone ever offered me an alternative solution besides cooling. now I am stuck without any idea of what to do nearly nearly 300 quid out of pocket with a crashing pc to show for it. why cant pc's ever be simple. I couldnt really afford the fan and case but did it because i thought it would rectify the problem and be worth it in the long run, boy was I wrong.
Please can someone help me out its been like 2 months and Im jsut getting sick and tired of it.
im on win98
512 pc133 ram athlon xp2100+(stock settings)
with an AX7 heatsink with a Panaflo 80mm fan
Chieftek Scorpio TX Case
Asus Geforce 3
Asus A7A266-E lates bios rev 1011
Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm
It only crashes when running a game (it didnt crash running madonions 3dmark2000)
I seriously doubt that its the heat causing the problem when running at 1.3ghz
(underclocked it doesnt crash but can still reach temperatures of about 70+ degrees (based on previous AMD stock fan))
so why would it crash at only 60 degrees now?
it jsut doesnt add up and I am not knowledgable about such things that i can provide a solution.
I beg of anyone who may have a solution to help me out please.
thanks for your time
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