damaged products?

Could be the heat. The way you describe it, things get worse as the system heats up. Here are my suggestions, bear with me if some of them seem pretty basic.

Try a different HSF and be careful how you mount it. Use the thermal compound sparingly. Get more case cooling - that should help the cpu temp too. Try a different video card, if you have one laying around. (This should tell you if your GF2 is bad.) If you get OK video from another vid card or another PC, your monitor is probably OK. I hope you didn't fry anything. Good luck.

The CPU is running at acceptable temperatures and so your PC could be near a static field creating by the rubbing of your clothes and body which then acumilates around any metal objects you might be wearing, and the gradual build up of magnetic fields is causing the distortion on the monitor, and creating the ILLUSION that the PC has crashed when in fact the magnetic field build up in the monitor has caused whats on screen to freeze there making it seem as though it has crashed.

You should be able to solve the problem by working on your PC naked and without jewellery to reduce the chances of their being any metal objects on your person (many washing powders do contain traces of metal dust to reflect light and make clothes seem cleaner, and also traces of metal can be picked up from inside the water pipes and inside your washing machine and so just because your garment dosn't have anything visiblely metal on it dosn't mean there is none) but by he sounds of things though gotten so bad in the case of your monitor that the metal connections and wires inside will probably be holding a faint magnetic charge also. The best way to neutralise this is to first of all make sure your graphics card is completely purged from any magnetism by dipping it in water. Now plug it back into your PC (no need to wipe the water off) and plug the monitor back into it. Now you can purge the monitor of the trace magnetic fields it would have picked up by passing a high voltage current through it, unfortunately due there are only two ways to pass this through the D-sub cable (how it connects to the graphics card) and the power lead. The power lead itself and the it's connection to the monitor are highly shielded against high currents thus making it hard to pass a current of suficent size through it to purge the magnetism from the monitor, fortunately the d-sub connection has no such problem but it is slightly harder to implement. What you will need to find someway to rig the graphics card up to a high voltage power supply, there are two ways to do this that I recommend, one is hooking up a set of car jump leads to the graphics card, and the other is using a paper clip to connect the graphics card to a plug socket. This bit is very importent though if you don't want to damage the graphics card and monitor while the power is on and passing through the graphics card and into the monitor you must be holding onto the graphics card and must be touching at least some of the metal contacts on it with your feet squarely on the floor...that should fix the problem...


sorry


Your nice new PC might be faster then my 286, but my 286 makes a better door stop

I'm happy with my AMD! I'm starting to dislike Via, but I like my AMD. Kicks the crap out of my parents P3 Dell. Stable? Hmm...the Dell has major problems, my home-built AMD doesn't.



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I know you were. But not everybody has problems with their AMD (only a small percentage do). I'm just pointing that out.

But way to defend the Intel. I love how trolls never actually provide proof to back up their opinions.

"It's more stable" - Not from my experience
"It's faster" - Maybe with a much higher clock speed...still waiting for the benchmarks, though
"It's not that much more expensive" - Yes it is, quit lying to yourself
"It's the future" - Right, but you have to buy a new motherboard every time Intel makes a change
"But...but..." - That's what I thought



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Just what drugs are you on? Sounds really freakish!

YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM THEY ARE MINE ALL MINE!!!!

Your nice new PC might be faster then my 286, but my 286 makes a better door stop