Hi All,

I have an AMD 350 OC'd to 400 with 128 MB at 100  MHz (good quality
guaranteed
to work with this moboard), plus some SCSI drives attached to Advansys
ultrawide
controller and an old #9 PCI Video w/ 4 Mb on a Tyan Trinity 100.

When I run Access97 it pegs the CPU at 100% for long periods of time, even
if there is
not an actual database open, just the program. Problem is, an alarm goes off
from the
motherboard (CPU temp?) after 1 or 2 mins or so at 100%. In Access, if I do
click on the
menu and save a file or something similar, I can get the CPU to drop to
<<100%, but then
it will immediately come back to 100% utilization. WHY does Access peg CPU
at 100%
 when it does not appear anything is going on?

Have good heat sink on CPU with paste, full tower case with multiple fans. I
even have fans
for the SCSI drives. I think ventilation is OK.

What, if anything can I do about the overheating? Alarm is set for 56oC, CPU
shutdown at 60oC. Normal operating temp, (i.e. idle processes, re-boot to
see bios)
appears to be about 30-35oC.

I can take the CPU back down to 350, but this wouldn't do anything for the
100%
CPU use. IT might prevent the alarm, but might not.

Anyone have an opinion?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

cheers,

david brenner
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