Trey
12-30-2000, 04:41 PM
Ever since about 3 months ago, my PC kept freezing like crazy. It locks up about 10-12 times a day (no exaggeration). It always happens when I do certain things like go to certain websites, or play winamp, etc. It also locks up a lot at random.
This didn't start after any major changes, it just started happening. I reformatted and did a fresh install of 98, hoping to get rid of the problem, but it still happens. At first, I thought it was my video card. Its a Voodoo3 3000 PCI, the card known for its heat. The card was so hot, when I grabbed the corner, it would almost burn my finger after about 5-10 seconds. So I installed 3 extra fans in my case to help cool it down. One of them was a cyclone blower, which sucks air from the inside and blows it out the back. I have this placed directly under the video card. The second fan is at the bottom of the front right next to the speaker, blowin air in. And the third fan is actually 3 small fans. It is intended to just lay in front of your hard drive to keep it cool, but I put this in one of my extra bays at the top of the case, blowing air in. So I have 3 fans to help keep it cool, and one of them blowing air right from under the processor on the Voodoo card. This did not help at all.
Next, I thought it may be the RAM. So I bought another 64 stick and put it in, took the other stick out (I only had 64MB to begin with). That did not help, same thing. So I stuck the old stick behind it (total now 128), and everything started working fine... for about 4 hours. Then it went back to locking up again. But it doesn't lock up now when doing certain things, it now just locks up all the time at random. And it seems to have gotten worse, now locking up about 1-3 times per hour.
Now I have no idea what the problem is. This is why I plan on building a new PC in the very near future, cause this one is a P.O.S. I bought it from Quantex, who was rated #1 in tech support at the time. Well, so much for that.
Anyone have any ideas? All is appreciated. I'm running a Celeron 500 with (now) 128MB Ram.
Thanx,
Trey
This didn't start after any major changes, it just started happening. I reformatted and did a fresh install of 98, hoping to get rid of the problem, but it still happens. At first, I thought it was my video card. Its a Voodoo3 3000 PCI, the card known for its heat. The card was so hot, when I grabbed the corner, it would almost burn my finger after about 5-10 seconds. So I installed 3 extra fans in my case to help cool it down. One of them was a cyclone blower, which sucks air from the inside and blows it out the back. I have this placed directly under the video card. The second fan is at the bottom of the front right next to the speaker, blowin air in. And the third fan is actually 3 small fans. It is intended to just lay in front of your hard drive to keep it cool, but I put this in one of my extra bays at the top of the case, blowing air in. So I have 3 fans to help keep it cool, and one of them blowing air right from under the processor on the Voodoo card. This did not help at all.
Next, I thought it may be the RAM. So I bought another 64 stick and put it in, took the other stick out (I only had 64MB to begin with). That did not help, same thing. So I stuck the old stick behind it (total now 128), and everything started working fine... for about 4 hours. Then it went back to locking up again. But it doesn't lock up now when doing certain things, it now just locks up all the time at random. And it seems to have gotten worse, now locking up about 1-3 times per hour.
Now I have no idea what the problem is. This is why I plan on building a new PC in the very near future, cause this one is a P.O.S. I bought it from Quantex, who was rated #1 in tech support at the time. Well, so much for that.
Anyone have any ideas? All is appreciated. I'm running a Celeron 500 with (now) 128MB Ram.
Thanx,
Trey