Chad Williamson
December 6th 03, 11:05 PM
The biggest issue that I see is that your processor is
running at 65 degrees. That is way to high and can cause
some instabillity in your system. Do you have sufficient
cooling for your system (i.e. system fans)?
Also, if your proc is getting that hot, you graphics card
is most likely getting very warm as well which would cause
instability.
Chad
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi !
>
>I'm running Windows XP Pro, with SP1 installed.
>
>Following is my sys config -
>
>
>Processor : AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.66 GHz)
> (working at a temperature of 65
C on an average)
>
>Motherboard : Biostar M7VIT Pro (VIA KT400 Chipset)
> URL:
>http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/socket_a/m7vi
tp/index.php3
>
>RAM : 256 MB DDR
>
>Display Card : NVidia geForce4 440MX with AGP 8X
> Card Manufactured by Ennyah Corp.
> URL:
>http://www.ennyah.com.tw/english/products/components/vga/g
eforce4_mx440_8x.htm
> Currently using driver ver.
4.4.0.3 provided by
>NVidia.
>
>The problem I am facing is, when I'm working on my
computer, sometimes,
>randomly, it freezes for 4 or 5 seconds.
>After 4 or 5 seconds, the screen automatically gets into
640*480 very low
>color mode and I get a prompt which
>reads "Graphics Driver Failure: The driver failed to
complete one of the
>drawing operations. Please save your work
>and then restart the computer.". If after this prompt I
get into display
>properties and increase the resolution and color
>depth manually, the computer imadiately reboots on its
on. So in any case
>I've to restart the computer. When it
>restarts, it gets into it's normal 1024x768 32 Bit color
depth mode and
>everything is back to normal.
>The frequency of this happening is around once a day. I
still haven't
>figured out any particular event at which this happens.
>I also have Win2000 installed on the same computer. Once
while running
>Win2000, a similar thing happend. It freezed, but
>it was permanent. I had to use manual reboot to get out
of it. I haven't
>used Win2k much on it yet.. how ever something
>definately is fishy.
>
>does ne1 have n idea of what can be wrong? .. any
solutions ! ??
>
>thanks !
>
>greetings,
>Puneet.
>
>
>
>.
>
running at 65 degrees. That is way to high and can cause
some instabillity in your system. Do you have sufficient
cooling for your system (i.e. system fans)?
Also, if your proc is getting that hot, you graphics card
is most likely getting very warm as well which would cause
instability.
Chad
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi !
>
>I'm running Windows XP Pro, with SP1 installed.
>
>Following is my sys config -
>
>
>Processor : AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.66 GHz)
> (working at a temperature of 65
C on an average)
>
>Motherboard : Biostar M7VIT Pro (VIA KT400 Chipset)
> URL:
>http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/socket_a/m7vi
tp/index.php3
>
>RAM : 256 MB DDR
>
>Display Card : NVidia geForce4 440MX with AGP 8X
> Card Manufactured by Ennyah Corp.
> URL:
>http://www.ennyah.com.tw/english/products/components/vga/g
eforce4_mx440_8x.htm
> Currently using driver ver.
4.4.0.3 provided by
>NVidia.
>
>The problem I am facing is, when I'm working on my
computer, sometimes,
>randomly, it freezes for 4 or 5 seconds.
>After 4 or 5 seconds, the screen automatically gets into
640*480 very low
>color mode and I get a prompt which
>reads "Graphics Driver Failure: The driver failed to
complete one of the
>drawing operations. Please save your work
>and then restart the computer.". If after this prompt I
get into display
>properties and increase the resolution and color
>depth manually, the computer imadiately reboots on its
on. So in any case
>I've to restart the computer. When it
>restarts, it gets into it's normal 1024x768 32 Bit color
depth mode and
>everything is back to normal.
>The frequency of this happening is around once a day. I
still haven't
>figured out any particular event at which this happens.
>I also have Win2000 installed on the same computer. Once
while running
>Win2000, a similar thing happend. It freezed, but
>it was permanent. I had to use manual reboot to get out
of it. I haven't
>used Win2k much on it yet.. how ever something
>definately is fishy.
>
>does ne1 have n idea of what can be wrong? .. any
solutions ! ??
>
>thanks !
>
>greetings,
>Puneet.
>
>
>
>.
>