my P4, the clip broke, it doesnt slow down, it just locks up



"Jeremy D. Grotte" wrote in message
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I know P4's do, from first hand experience. Had a heat sink almost fall
off
once. Machine ran sporatically and made noise. Figured I'd better check
it
out, sure enough, one of the heatsink clips came loose.

As far as the FPU error goes. Wouldn't it be just as easy/cheap to grab
an
older Celeron or slower P3, slap it in and see if the problem goes away?
JDG

"johnnie7" wrote in message
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dont p3s just slow down wen they over heat?

"Alex Schulz" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have seen this before. Could be bad cache or ram. Download RamTest
(free) from:
http://www.simg.de/ramtest.e.html

Install it on a bootable floppy and run it from the Dos prompt. If you
have ram problems it will find them. I once had a machine with a
sticky bit that caused intermittent crashes. This was the only tool
that could detect it.

You can also disable the external cache and try again. There is also
the possibility of a bad cpu. Is it cooled adequately? If it is a
machine with a static heat sink (no fan on the heat sink) make sure
the case is closed when running it. A PIII 450 is a fine machine for
running Win98,

Hope this helps

Alex