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.