At 10:13 PM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>My recently built AMD Athlon 800 MHZ has recently been overheating and
>crashing alot. I built this computer earlier this month. It has an AMD
>Athlon 800 MHZ socket 670 (not overclocked), Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (not
>overclocked), a Linksys network card, a 3dfx cooling fan (cools pci and
>agp and isa cards), a Cyclone Blower fan for air to leave system (in a
>pci slot), a fan in the front drawing air in, and (of course) a fan on
>the processor.


Hi there...

Did you put a heat compound between the processor and processor fan? If you
did, it may be that, due to the heat generated by the Athlon 800, the
compound isn't good enough to handle that kinda heat. Either use a better
quality compound or be sure to spread it correctly when applying it.

Harlen Linke

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