Built up a newish rig outta a few old bits n bobs at the start of the month, got over the initially teething problems and its been running stable ever since (did 72 hours running toast to really test it) Switched it on this afternoon to do my i.t coursework (deadline tommorow) nothing too hard just an excel database and a few pages explaining what it does etc.
Checked my emails/forums first and was about 30 minutes in and it did the computer equivalant of keeling over and dying for no reason, just shut down and left the cpu overheat siren going off. left it ten mintes came back booted up fine with a cpu temp of 47 degree's, "thats alrite, its a bit warm in here after all" open up word and start typing again and it dies again, same thing. Opened it up, bled the watercooling and reseated the cpu, same thing happened again after 20 seconds. I've had nothing but random problems over the last few weeks with this board, the onboard network failed last weekend, wasn't too fussed cos i'd got a network card spare and I cba to rma but still, this mb has built a reputation as one of the most stable for socket A p.c's on this forum and others, sod it, i'm off to buy an old Pentium 3 500mhz system like the one i'm on now, this things been running fanless and without upgrades other than an extra 128mb of ram the week after i bought it for 3 years!
People who say technology moves forward are severely wrong![]()
As it is now i've gotta do an excel database and write up in the next 18 hours on a computer that won't even load windows, My ZX81 was more reliable than this![]()


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