I think this is a northbridge overheating problem
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 6:59 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jetface
(2 messages posted)
I used to have this problem on my old AMD K6-2 550 MHz with a GeForce2. It would
always happen when I was doing anything graphic intensive. I tried all kinds of
solutions, drivers, BIOS settings, switching out hardware, then finally I believe
I figured out what it was. My northbridge was overheating (VIA MVP3 chipset). The
last time I got BSOD I felt the northbridge (make sure power supply is off, touch
the case first or you might zap something) and it was more than warm. I stuck a
fan in the side of my case blowing right on the sucker and now it never happens.
I am also running a nforce2 chipset board with a Geforce4 4200 Ti and I haven't
encountered one yet ( had it for 6 months). I think it is because my board came
standard with a nice passive northbridge cooling setup. I believe lowering your
memory timings work because it is slowing your system down and therefore probably
not heating things up as much. Its not too hard to stick a fan somewhere to blow
on the northbridge. When I first tested it out, I just used a bunch of zip ties
to basically hang it in the right vicinity. This is just my opinion, maybe it will
work for you.
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All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Confused (Adri1456: Fri, May 14, 2004, 3:29 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  | I think this is a northbridge overheating problem (jetface: Tue, Jun 3, 2003, 6:59 am) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Crash (greine12: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 4:57 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | re: Crash (MadMan: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 1:19 pm) |
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