Alex
It's been my experience that when a video card is overheating you
will see anomalies on the screen lines/dots etc, but when computers
completely freeze this is usually a memory problem or an overheating
CPU. In most cases with AMD CPU's it is the CPU. Make sure that you
have a good quality heatsink/fan and that it is mounted properly to the
CPU. Sometime OEM's will use thermal tape between the CPU core and
heatsink for heat transfer. In my opinion this is not a good solution and
you should use a good thermal grease/compound between the two.
A good place to start is www.coolerguys.com for cooling solutions and
they also have a good write up on mounting heatsinks if I remember right.
Also make sure that you have good airflow through you're computer case.
All the CPU cooling in the world doesn't do any good if you don't get the
heat
removed from you're computers case :)
Good Luck, Regards
Dave B
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> It's been my experience that when a video card is overheating you
> will see anomalies on the screen lines/dots etc, but when computers
> completely freeze this is usually a memory problem or an overheating
> CPU. In most cases with AMD CPU's it is the CPU. Make sure that you
> have a good quality heatsink/fan and that it is mounted properly to the
> CPU. Sometime OEM's will use thermal tape between the CPU core and
> heatsink for heat transfer. In my opinion this is not a good solution and
> you should use a good thermal grease/compound between the two.
> A good place to start is www.coolerguys.com for cooling solutions and
> they also have a good write up on mounting heatsinks if I remember right.
> Also make sure that you have good airflow through you're computer case.
> All the CPU cooling in the world doesn't do any good if you don't get the
> heat
> removed from you're computers case :)
> Good Luck, Regards
> Dave B
> > How does one determine if it is the video card overheating or if it is
> > the CPU. N4 runs multiplayer for about 20 minutes and locks up. The
> > screen freezes completely. It only locks up during N4. I'm running
> > an AMD 1200 cpu not overclocked and a GE force2 with the latest
> > drivers not overclocked. Any ideas ?
Are you running the GF2 with 4x AGP? If so, try knocking it down to 2x in
the BIOS. I have the same problem and have never been able to find a
solution to it even though everyone tells me it should work at 4x AGP. Weird
stuff, man.
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