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L0HpT
03-10-01, 12:17 AM
ok here are my system specs:

Amd 1.2 ghz Tbird (200) not overclocked
Abit KT7A-Raid
256 megs PC150 TinyBGA Kingsmax
Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1
Hercules Geforce 2 Ultra
61.4 gig IBM 7200 ATA100 HD
Plextor 16x10x40x
Pioneer 16x DVD

I have a Alpha Pep66 with delta fan - 5 120mm case fans - and using Artic Silver 2
Im running Win2k Pro w/ SP1
As i said before im not overclocking at the moment. I have installed 4in1 4.28 drivers
My pc constantly locks up when surfing the web and playing games ... i havent really tried to overclock at
all .. does anyone know what could be causing this ??
im really frustrated with this because i dont know what the hell it could be ?
Thanks for any help.

KaHNZa
03-10-01, 12:44 AM
Try uninstalling the 4in1 4.28 They gave me nothing but trouble in windows2000. Ever since removing them everything has run great!

AKDUDE
03-10-01, 01:15 AM
4.29a just went official, maybe you could give them a try.
AKDUDE

ken257
03-10-01, 09:00 PM
What size is your power supply? With the extra draw of all those case fans you are prob gonna need 400 watt or better. Also large and or high speed fans can in some cases cause interferance with the mobo and the result lockups, especialy if they are close to the chipset.

Make sure you have a good PS and try running without the fans but it would be a good idea to leave the side cover off when you do this for good ventalation.

ken257
03-10-01, 09:02 PM
One more possibility a high power cpu fan can cause instability when pluged into a header on the mobo (to much power drain) hook it up to a drive power plug instead.

Colin
03-10-01, 09:49 PM
Can you detail how your system locks up and what you are doing with your PC when it happens?

Kosh
03-11-01, 04:24 AM
I don't know much about this but wouldn't it be possible that the BIOS needs updating?

diehrd
03-11-01, 06:11 AM
Make sure all thoes fans are not hooked to the mother board,AT the msot hook up 2 basic fans and no high powered ones on the mother board headers.I had 3 fans and was unable to acess the bios untill there tech people told me to disconect all but the processor fan on header 1.