James grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Just had a friend walk in so I asked him... He had the same problem > and it was because the CPU fan had gotten worn down and wasn't cooling > the CPU as well as it used to (plus a lot of the k-6 fans were flaky > to start) His suggestion is to (his words not mine) open up the case > stick a destop fan blowing into the box. If that changes the time > before it crokes... it's the fan. Or if you don't want such a crude > test get one of the cylindrical(sp?) fans on the market now put it in > and try it out that way. Fans cheaper and easier to find than a k-6 > mobo these days.
I know. :-) I'm dreading having to track down a new motherboard for this beast, although as I progress further and further, it's looking more and more likely. FWIW, the BIOS has not been reporting abnormally high tempratures on the CPU. The 350MHz one I have in their currently is running around 109 degrees F, which isn't that bad. I've got all three DIMM (I can't believe I've been saying SIMM all this time - argh!) slots populated at the present time. I'm going to start pulling them one at a time and see if the problem goes away. I've had really good results with Memtest-86 in the past, so I don't seriously think it's a DIMM module. But I want to be complete in my testing.... Especially before I have to track down a new motherboard. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com