he problem with letting it sit on a BIOS screen to check the temp is that you aren't giving the CPU a workout. The temp will be significantly higher when doing heavy processing. Jeff > I have heard that this is not the best thing to do, as it dosnt control the > flow of air as well, dose anyone have any thoughts on that? > > Also, what should be the average running temp of an Athlon system? The bios > tells me the temp, and I can let it set there for a while to get a better > reading. > > Jay > > On Sunday 10 February 2002 10:49 am, you wrote: > > I had a lot of bizzare CPU problems as well. Turned out to be heat. I > > would try to simply pull your case off and let it run free. Maybe point a > > fan at the cpu. > > > > My system would just up and lock no oops or panics or anything > > > > On Saturday 09 February 2002 17:13, you wrote: > > > the other major thing is the software you have running. if you have > > > windows running its always gunna be more crashprone then UNIX. try > > > different software to see if somthing running in the background is either > > > conflicting with the software or mabye the software you are trying to run > > > is reliant on somthing that isnt there. iduno though, im still kindof a > > > n00b. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- > > -- > Jay Kline > list at slushpupie.com > http://www.slushpupie.com > -- > You will be the last person to buy a Chrysler. > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >