Do I need more cooling?

[tdao]

Hi,

I have a problem with my computer. It freezes for like 6 seconds every 10-30 mins. The computer is new, its a
PIII 600
128MB
Gigabyte MB
... I'm not sure the model #'s but its an pretty decient system.

The place where I bought it from said it may be low voltage from my outlet. The computer is on for like 10 or more hours a day. Do you think it is my outlet? or do I need more cooling. I tested it out in the living room outlet and worked fine... but at first it worked fine in my room too. Does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks,
Tony

[NDC]

Does the mainboard your using have a heat sensor, such as WINBOND? If it does, you can go into the BIOS and check the current CPU temperature or you can download MBM4 (MainBoard Monitor 4) which will give you the temperature of your CPU, Case, etc and also give you the power voltage highs and lows.

We have a Gigabyte GA-6BXDS dual board and it has a WINBOND chip to monitor the CPU temperature and power voltages. I don't know which model you have, but may be possible that it has WINBOND also.

Below is a link for MBM4 incase you do have sensor on your mainboard, it's free:
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~a.vankaam/mbm/

The site will also tell you what mainboards are supported with the software. Just look in the GIGABYTE section on your left side after you find out what model your mainboard is. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 09-08-2000).]

[Brangwen]

Is the air temperature noticably higher in your room where the computer freezes up? After you install the Motherboard Monitor as described in the previous post, check out the CPU temperature you're actually running at, and what it's at just before the computer freezes up. Is this a brand like Compaq, Gateway or Dell? Or was your computer assembled by a smaller shop or by you? What is running in the case? Is the case a desktop or tower? What size and speed HD(s)? And which vid/graphics card? Stock heatsink and fan? Are you running a particular software when the computer freezes?

Give us a bit more info and the members here will help you through!

Brangwen http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif