On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:07:43 +0900, Michael Cash
<mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:


>It runs great and has absolutely beautiful graphics. But...
>
>When running games, everything goes along fine for a while and then
>there is a sort of soft "pfft" sound from inside the case and the
>entire system hangs up. I have installed the latest drivers from the
>video card manufacturer's website, and have fiddled with everything I
>can imagine. I'm not overclocking the CPU and the CPU temp runs at
>about 37-38 degrees, as does the motherboard. Anybody have any
>suggestions on what might be causing this and what I could do to
>remedy the problem? One of the games doesn't even require graphic
>acceleration at all, and in facts runs like a charm on my old computer
>(with much lower specs, Pentium III 733mhz, 448mb ram, no video card).
>It's driving me nucking futs.

I figured it out. Or at least I fixed it, anyway.

The games or the card or something doesn't care for hyperthreading.
Turned it off in the BIOS and everything was hunky-dory. For about
three and a half hours into a game. That's when I was reminded that my
apartment was wired by the same electricians who did Oliver Wendell
Douglas' house in Hooterville. Two computers, an air conditioner, and
the rice cooker can NOT all be on at the same time. In fact, the air
conditioner and the microwave can't be on at the same time.

When the rice cooker kicked in and turned up the heat, WHAM! went the
circuit breaker. There followed an incredibly heartfelt and
considerably sustained burst of profanity that blistered the paint off
all the cars in the parking lot outside.

Like they say, if it ain't one thing, it's something else.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/