Jeff,

You say here that heat shouldn't be a problem, but one question here.  Do
you have a fan directly on the processor chip of the video card?  All the
fans in the world may not help unless you have one directly on the heat sink
connected to the processor.  Also, the heat sink may not be big enough.
This problem is a classical heat issue (I'm not saying that is definitely
the issue here).

Also, you don't mention what else is sharing an IRQ with the video.  Have
you verified in the device manager what is sharing what?  That will be real
helpful in trying to diagnose the issue.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Jeff McConnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] BP6 + GeForce DDR + SB Live + Quake3 Lockups??


> I've been having some lock-up problems in Quake 3.  The video freezes and
> the sound stutters until I do a manual reset.

<<snip>>

> I think it may be an IRQ problem that only shows up when really pushing
the
> system.

<<snip snip>>

> I do not believe it is a heat issue - I have large global-win
heatsinks/fans
> on the CPUs, a PCI card cooler (the one with 2 waffle fans on a bracket,
> that blows across the PCI cards), front case fan blowing in, p/s and upper
> back case fan blowing out, an exhaust fan by the CPUs, plus a drive bay
> cooler.  The processors do not get above 90F, even when overclocked to
550,
> and the lockups happen regardless of overclocking.  The GeForce card is
> running at stock speeds.

<<snip>>

> Jeff

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