Heat. Do you have an extra case fan? Hope so. Is the heatsink on that
K6-3 free of dust, with a full speed fan? (This is a major problem for
those who insist on smoking with their PCs... the smoke binds the
other crap in the air to fans and the things they blow on or thru).
How hot is the house? I know its winter, but if the room is getting
over 80F, thats another source of problems with closed cases, anyways.
Run that puppy at 3x100MHz (300) instead of 3.5*"95" for a while and
see if it improves. The added bus speed might help anyways. Hard to
say.
Also check the temps on those video cards.
Lucas Vogel wrote:
> I am having a really hard time troubleshooting why my box will randomly
> freeze. I am running a SuSE 6.4 box w/ 192 MB RAM, a Diamond Speedstar A55
> 8MB AGP video card, a Voodoo2 card, an Ensoniq ES1371 sound card(?), a
> D-Link(tulip) NIC, and I can't remember the name of the motherboard with an
> AMD K-3 333 chip. On occasion, for reasons I can't figure out, my system
> will all of a sudden completely lock up. The user input devices will not
> respond at all, and I have to do a hard reboot. It seems to be doing this
> with increased frequency lately; I used to think it was a software
> problem(something to do with the drivers for my sound card) but I'm now
> starting to suspect maybe it really is a hardware problem. Any guesses
> and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated in figuring out what's
> causing this to crash.
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