Via chipset KT133 and system instability

[Net Llama!]

On 12/24/02 08:56, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:36:00 -0500 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 23 December 2002 10:42 pm, someone claiming to be Marvin Dickens 
>> wrote:
>> > > > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 13:05, Tim Wunder wrote:
>> > > > > Anyone running an AMD-based board with a Via KT133 chipset?
>> > > > > I've been experiencing a significant amount of system instabilty (X
>> > > > > crashing,
>> >
>> > Go purchase a big, copper (Read: Not aluminum.... Copper is
>> > approximately 40% more efficient than aluminum) heat sink that has at
>> > least a 4500 rpm fan attached to it and your problems will disappear.
>> > Temperatures over 118 Fahrenheit inject chipset Gremlins into  AMD
>> > powered systems.
>> >
>> <snip>
>> 
>> Now *that* sounds like a plan! After updating my BIOS, and installing new RAM,
>> 
>> I still have problems. I've also got the feeling that my video card may be 
>> going bonkers on me. When I switch to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), I'm now 
>> getting white spots on a portion of my screen. I also get ghosts when 
>> dragging icons around the desktop.
>> 
> 
> Turn off box, remove cover, unplug video card, run pencil eraser across card

I hope you don't mean the eraser.  That's the best way to completely 
wreck all the sockets.  Its the graphite in the pencil itself that you want.

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