Re: Temperature on an Athlon-XP

Video card may be bad,,,switch out with PCI and see what happends. Also,
what's the wattage of your PS?
Lastly, FOC may be engaged at the wrong settings. Change to 65 degrees C.
Joe
"ranchhand" <> wrote in message
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> I have three AMDs running now, and all are over 45C average temp.
> Actually, it well may not have anything to do with temperature at all.
> I strongly suspect your memory. Why don't you try pulling your
> ramstick(s) and substituting a good one, a single 256 will work. If
> your crashes stop, you have your answer. The reason is that many
> times one of your sticks has a few bad addresses higher up on the
> access tree; your CPU never has to access those under ordinary
> circumstances. Games put the greatest stress of anything on a system,
> and when under heavy load it finally reaches those addresses, POW!
>
> The other possibility is that your monitoring utility is giving
> incorrect readings; next crash, immediately boot into the BIOS Health
> and see what the BIOS is reading your temp at. Hope this helps.