WIN ME?

[Exter]

He bought good cooling heatsink and thermal paste and the CPU temap was only 35 degrees.

[daveleau]

That's a good temp for a 1.4 at idle. What is the temp whent he CPU is at 100%? I doubt that is the issue though if he has a good HS/fan. If it were just the game, I would still say it was heat related and the video was getting too hot.

What kind of power supply is in the system?

Dave

[cadetstimpy]

Sound like a memory problem. If there is more than 1 stick of RAM try removing excess leaving one stick at a time alternating sticks and slots. See if the problem 'follows' a single stick of RAM or a particular slot.

[Exter]

This a PC of a friend of mine and it has troubles.


Hardware:
Amd Athlon TB 1400 <-- 35 graden
Asus A7V-E
Asus V8200 GeForce 3
256 mb ram
Maxtor 30 GB 7200 rpm
Creative SB 64 pci
Aopen cdrom 48x
Philips cdr 2/2/24 x
E-TECH 128 pci ISDN card
Realtec Netwerk kaart
Pinnacle rave tv-kaart

Software:
WinME
Asus 12.10 Display drivers
VIA 4in1 1432v drivers
Half-life 1.1.0.6
C-S 1.1
Sacrifice
Quake 3
Delta force 3


The troubles are:

Not:
More then 10 min CS on internet.*
More thenn 1hour internet. **
More then 1hour playing mp3's.*
*=beep by sound after 10sec everything freezes.
**=Connection broken and everything freezes.

I thought it could be WINME. what do you guys think?

[daveleau]

Could be heat related as well. Internet and MP3's are not CPU/GPU intensive, while CS is. Check the temps in the system and the fan setup.

Moving to Tech Support.

Dave

[GrimBo]

I remember hearing something of a "memory hole" or something to that nature while using ME. This may or may not be related to your situation but whne I read your post it reminded me of the story. If you want more information on it I'd have to try and remember where I sa it.

[Exter]

300 Watts of Powersupply.

[arthur888]

I had the same problem and I solved it by installing the "VIA PCI Latency Patch"by George E. Breese. it solved for 100%. I got the patch from www.viahardware.com. I think you can still find it in the archive and if not you can send me an email. Then I will mail it to you. Good luck

Eindhoven de gekste!!!!!!!!!!!

Arthur