Suddenly shutsdown or loses performance

[Darklorden]

I got this config:

AMD K6-2 350
Tyan Titan 1590S MB
Speedstar A50 AGP
Magic VooDoo2
64 Mb PC-100
Alsound 007 card
Realtek RTL8029 PCI Ethernet + NE2000 ISA
24X CD-Rom
8.4 Gb HD
Additional USB ports (had it from my old comp)
Philips Vesta Pro webcam on USB

Now to the problem,
I have had several blue deaths before I got the patch for the VIA chipset. After that they occasionally appear but Nuts&Bolts deals with it. Now recently I have begun to get sudden shutdowns. For example I installed Age of Kings and when playing, it begins to hack frame by frame and the sound is terrible. Or the comp even resets itself. This can happen while surfing too.
I got several advices like heat, lose cable and so forth. Help?

[Steve R Jones]

This can be any number of things. Last time I worked on a pc with random shutdowns/restarts the problem ended up being the mobo. You might try reseating all the cards and ram chips. Or swapping them out if you have any extra parts..

[Darklorden]

Thank you Steve for your answer. I will try that out. Also I found after writing here a jumper that said: Memory (DIMM)Clock Speed, and there was no jumper at all (the manual says it should either be AGP Clock or CPU Clock). I set it to CPU and ran some games and tested it and it seems to work right now.
Anyone who knows more about it?

[RobRich]

It allows you to run your memory at either the front side bus speed (cpu speed) or at the AGP bus speed (AGP speed). It was made for people that run either 72pin simms or older pc66 sdrams. It would allow them to run the cpu and cache at 100mhz, and run the memory at 66mhz, which was more stable with these old memory types. Since you have PC100, run it at cpu for best performance. Also, you checked all your bios options. Sometimes MVP3 boards defualt the memory timings to Turbo, which can cause errors with some memory types. You can try lowering it t see if it stablizes. I also assume your cpu has good cooling, as that is a must for the k6-2. I would first try making sure all your cards and chips are firmly seeated as noted by Steve, then I would look at your system configuration itself. BIOS settings, a bad windows install, and even old drivers can cause these problems.

[daveleau]

You are one of the few people I have heard sing praises about Nuts and Bolts. I have had serious problems anytime I try to use a McAfee Utility besides their AV program. If you uninstall it it still leaves bugs behind though. It does not sound like that is the problem (especially since you seem to have fixed it http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif)
Dave

[BEOR999]

Try disabling the cache memory in the bios, then see if it still reboots, just a hunch http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif