Chances are its the processor.  I'm not sure what the setting are on this
chip, but I was told from a local computer dealer to set it slower than the
settings on the chip.  You might also want to look for a heatsink/fan
designed around Cyrix chips with heat transfer computer between the CPU and
fan/heatsink.

Just my two bits.

--Patrick Black
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug & Sharon White <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 8:13 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Blue Screen Of Death


>        I have a Cyrix 266 on a TX Pro II motherboard, 32 megs of EDO RAM,
3.2 gig
>HD, onboard video and sound, Windows 95.
>
>        So far I am averaging about 3 or 4 fatal "Blue Screen of Death"
crashes a
>day.  I bought it as a second computer for my kids to play games on.  So
>far we have not installed anything that would push the hardware
>limits.......no accelerated 3D games or the like.  Most of the stuff has
>been educational games like Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, Kid Pix,
etc......
>
>        Nothing I have tried so far has been able to keep the system from
>crashing.  And we are not just talking crash and reboot.......we are
>talking crash, lock up, destroy Windows drivers files, refuse to reboot...
>
>        I have reloaded the OS on this machine 5 times (including 2 total
>reformats of drive C......starting right from scratch).......and now today
>it has crashed and burned again and I am going to have to do a complete
>reload again.
>
>        Is this common with games for them to blow up and eat chunks of the
OS for
>lunch?
>
>        Anybody have any idea as to where to start trying to trouble shoot
>something like this?
>
>        Doug........
>
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