[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

[Matt Midboe]

gin wrote:
> I swapped out the motherboard, and everything worked fine. But I also

Hmm, it might have been a heat problem then. I had an Asus P5A motherboard which
had the ALi chipset which pulled like 3.5v instead of 3.3v like my other
motherboard chipsets. Try as hard as I might I never really came up with an
effective cooling mechanism for when the CPU was under a heavy strain. When it
got too hot the whole thing just seized up. The same cpu and same hardware on a
different motherboard worked fine, even the same fan on the CPU.

Matt
matt at csbgroup.org