I have never seen freezes caused by bad memory. When you have bad memory
you get either failure at POST, or spontaneous reboots in windows. With
modern motherboards, overheating a CPU, will result in a automatic
shutdown, not a freeze.

With a freeze, the first thing I would suspect is the video driver, or
video card, or something related to it. Video cards, and drivers, cause
freezes. First I would try new video drivers. If that didn't help I would
put a new video card in ...any old PCI card would do. If the problem
disappears then think about a video card replacement. But if the problem is
still there, start thinking about the motherboard... maybe try more
conservative BIOS timing settings, moving PCI cards around, remove cards
one at a time and see if the problem goes away.

Good luck

Rode
The NOSPIN Group
http://www.freepctech.com/rode/



At 01:19 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote:
>Peter-
>You are running an Intel P4 cpu which supposedly doesn't  have heat problems
>so this may not be of help
>I have a similiar situation with my box. I am running an AMD Athlon XP2000+
>cpu . After checking everything I could think of, I started monitoring the
>cpu temp closely with PC Alert III Sytem Monitor. This gives me a continuous
>moment to moment reading of the cpu and chassis temps. The cpu normally runs
>at about 44 to 46c but for some as yet undetermined reason it will suddenly
>jump up to 50 or 51c. At that point it will usually freeze. Only way out is
>to hit reset. Have cleaned, installed more fans, Renewed thermal compound,
>installed different amounts and brands of memory, but problem seems to
>persist. I was a computer tech for 20 years so it is rather vexing that I
>cannot seem to pin point the exact cause.
>
>HTH
>John Dinges

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