Symptom: AH would lockup when in smoke or new cloud formations. AH was the only application locking up. Lockup would require a PC reset.
Story:
Over the holidays, I replaced my PII400 with a PIII600 (slot 1). Only the processor was replaced. It was an OEM processor so I had to install a heatsink. My Micron tower case has a fan that blows across the processor.
Some time after the processor replacement, the lockups started to happen. I thought that it coincided with a new version of AH. I tried different video drivers and reseating all of the hardware but lockups would still happen. AH was the only program locking up, but it did not happen regularly.
Then I bought Black and White (game) two weeks ago and it would lock up, although less often than AH. Now I am thinking that maybe the processor had been the problem all along and I was going to try and put the old one back in to test it, when I almost burned my fingers off pulling out the PIII. The heatsink and fan obviously wasn't doing enough to cool the CPU. I bought a new heatsink/fan combo from 3DCool.com and installed it and I have not had a lock up of any kind in 3 weeks. I should have noticed that the lockups happened more often as the spring temperatures arrived.
So after 4-5 months of swearing at AH and my Viper550, it turns out the problem was caused by an overheating CPU.
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Mickey
3./JG2 "BigJoe's Bastards"
[This message has been edited by Mickey1992 (edited 04-23-2001).]
