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Christmas cheer to one and all
My machine is not entering into the Christmas spirit.
I've installed XP Pro onto a machine that contains a new motherboard,
(Jetway V2MDMP) new ram (500mb DDR 400) new H/D (80g) and a reasonably
new chip (AMD Athlon 2.6). When the installation is complete all is
fine until I run a CPU intensive prog like a game or video editing
software or music software. Then the PC starts rebooting. Sometimes it
reboots at the point when the desktop is about to load other times XP
loads but reboots when pushed by an intensive prog. I have removed
all my PCI and AGP cards, formatted, installed, rebooted using the
onboard graphics and still the same problem. The CPU temp is running
at 48c and the system at 40c. A bit hot but ok.
My feeling is its something to do with the chip but I know nothing
about them. Can a chip still work if it's damaged but only fail when
it's pushed?
Is there a program I can use to test the integrity of the chip?
After every reboot XP reports an error to with making a mini dump
(whatever that is) in my documents\ local directory.
Any ideas or help much appreciated
Thanks
Christmas cheer to one and all
My machine is not entering into the Christmas spirit.
I've installed XP Pro onto a machine that contains a new motherboard,
(Jetway V2MDMP) new ram (500mb DDR 400) new H/D (80g) and a reasonably
new chip (AMD Athlon 2.6). When the installation is complete all is
fine until I run a CPU intensive prog like a game or video editing
software or music software. Then the PC starts rebooting. Sometimes it
reboots at the point when the desktop is about to load other times XP
loads but reboots when pushed by an intensive prog. I have removed
all my PCI and AGP cards, formatted, installed, rebooted using the
onboard graphics and still the same problem. The CPU temp is running
at 48c and the system at 40c. A bit hot but ok.
My feeling is its something to do with the chip but I know nothing
about them. Can a chip still work if it's damaged but only fail when
it's pushed?
Is there a program I can use to test the integrity of the chip?
After every reboot XP reports an error to with making a mini dump
(whatever that is) in my documents\ local directory.
Any ideas or help much appreciated
Thanks