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From: Elizabeth Boston <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 11:46 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New computer w/ATI Rage fury card locking up
> Hi everyone...
> I put together a computer this week... it has
> Celeron 400
> Biostar M6TBA motherboard
> 64 MB
> ATI Rage Fury w/32mb
> WD 8.4G hard drive
>
> It ran fine for a day and a half... at which time, I put the
> cover on the case. Now, it locks up frequently. I'm guessing that
> this is a heat problem, but since I've never used the Rage Fury
> video before (a $200 video card that the customer requested) I'd
> thought I'd ask about it.
> Are there any BIOS settings that I should change, etc?
>
Whenever this happens to me I remove the cover and check to see if I
loosened, or pinched any cables when I put the cover on. Re-insert &
tighten everything with the cover off, and test. If it happens the same way
again you probably have a grounding problem somewhere?
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