Eric Gill wrote:
> "Ptarmigan" <Ptarmigan@NoSpam.co.uk> wrote in
> news:7WFLa.692$ek5.263@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk: 
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot find any tech information. Even the Jetway
> site denies this critter's existance (not unusual).
>
> I'd try the RAM trick first, then double back and see if you can set
> up better cooling. For temporary cooling experiments, I often get a
> little circular fan and set it blowing directly into an open case.
> This generally brings down the ambient temp about 10C and if your
> resets stop, you'll know you need a better heatsink and fan setup (or
> someone forgot the thermal grease when they assembled your machine.)

Might gain some insight to the heat problem by dl'ing one of the temp
monitoring apps out there like Everest or MotherBoard Monitor rather than
having to check the bios report. Also, I've heard of people having problems
with the silicone tape between the CPU and heatsink drying out and becoming
less than optimally effective. One might try replacing that with the grease,
especially on the hotter AMD solutions if one's
CPU were heating up inordinately.

Also, 256MB seems a little cramped with XP running Photoshop if there's big
images in memory and perhaps other processes running concurrently. I've read
that PS isn't the best memory manager in Win OS's, (but that may have been
resolved).

I've also been looking into lock-ups recently due to problems I'm having,
but mine seems to result from winlogon.exe running my CPU usage up to 100%
continuously.

It's always something.
 
>
> Are you kidding? Conversations like this usually takes days over the
> usenet.

I thought this was IRC...

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dvus

Uni wrote:
> Shadowfax wrote: 
>
> Can you give us a volumetric figure which constitutes "proper
> airflow"? I don't think so!!!

Whatever keeps it cool enough is just right. BTW, AMD solved their notorious
heat problems some time ago and run just fine with nominal cooling solutions
as long as you're not an over-zealous over-clocker.
 
>
> You remind me of cold air - dense - but full of hot air :-) 

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dvus

dvus wrote:

I just discovered I'm discussing issues brought up 2 years ago! See, I
wasn't quite so senile back then so...

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