POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Bigtime MegaPov 0.7 CRASH! : Re: Bigtime MegaPov 0.7 CRASH! Server Time
1 Sep 2024 18:15:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bigtime MegaPov 0.7 CRASH!  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 17 May 2001 02:34:32
Message: <3b0370f8@news.povray.org>
My Duron650 had lots of blacks screens this summer. I see the cpu is basically
closed in by the power suppy unit and the card slots. Also Via motherboard. I
haven't heard anything good about Via...
I now got AMN Refridgerator from a PCFormat cover disk, but it's almost winter
now here...
I'm also gonna check out this MBprobe...

Nekar
--
#local N=<-20,40,100>;#local K=<20,-40,100>;#local R=seed(0);blob{#while((K-N).
x>0)#local X=N;#local N=N+<rand(R),rand(R),1>/3;#local N=(vlength(N-K)<vlength(
X-K)?N:2*X-N);sphere{<N.y,-N.x,N.z>,1,1 scale .02}sphere{N,1,1 scale.02}sphere{
<-N.x-40,N.y,N.z>1,1 scale.01}sphere{<N.x+40,-N.y,N.z>1,1 scale.01 }#end
pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission <2,4,5>*5}}hollow}// Nekar Xenos
"Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom> wrote in message
news:3b02d0ba$1@news.povray.org...
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> news:3b0291c4@news.povray.org...
> >   Are you sure that you are not suffering from CPU temperature problems?
> > This can be sometimes the cause for crashes with CPU-intensive programs
> > (such as POV-Ray). The CPU gets warmer when it's very busy.
> >   Watch the CPU temperature with a monitoring program such as
> > http://web.bham.ac.uk/jst829/mbprobe/
>
> Sure wish one of those utilities would monitor the motherboard and sensors I
> have.  Ah ha! That one lists the i815EM!  Finally...  Thanks so much for
> posting that URL!
>
> Seems I read someplace that AMD's are run hotter than equivalent clockrate
> Intel's, the Athlon anyway.  Same for Duron?  I couldn't say, not sure
> anyhow.  My DELL notebook is a PIII at 800Mhz and I suspect it isn't wholly
> stable, but a well-fanned tower case must be very different.
>
> Bob H.
>
>
>


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