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Mouse and graphics problem
Name: Colm Date: March 3, 2002 at 07:44:29 Pacific
Comment:
Im having 2 problems with my new machine
i have a 1.3ghz athlon thiunderbird, 20 gig 7200 rpm hard disk, an Radeon ve ati card (had riva tnt 2 ultra) 1) during playing games the game completely freezes and the mouse pointer appears over the game screen
2) Problem same as above except the sound freezes and repeats cant do ctrl+alt+del have to switch the machine off Any ideas ??????
Name: ted maul Date: March 3, 2002 at 17:48:53 Pacific
Reply:
sounds like ur cpu may be overheating. my 1GHz Athlon used to do that all the time until i got some super cooling going on.
it might be the case that the cpu isn't making good thermal contact with the heatsink. unfortunately, unless you're very careful, you'll mess up the thermal goo if you take the heatsink off to check...
and you can't rely on the thermal sensor either.
try fitting an additional fan. if it doesn't help, take it back!
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