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 ============================================ David Brenner, Ph.D. [log in to unmask] ============================================ PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html