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tomedcollins · 06-25-2003, 04:47 AM

OK, resurrection of an old thread here. To bring anyone reading this up to speed, my cleaning exercise did the trick ... for six months. Now, the problem is back with a vengeance. Doing yet another dust clean and leaving the side panel off of the case to try and give the computer better ventilation worked a treat, for all of a week or so.

Last night though the problem came back yet again, and my old hunch about the problem maybe being one of overheating was seemingly proved wrong by the fact that the system seemed quite cool when the corruption exhibited itself.

I don't think it's a question of drivers as I've upgraded several times between my original posts and now (I'm currently running Detonator 43.45 drivers).

The only other thing that comes to mind is that maybe the graphics card is too close to the modem and keeping heat close to the card, although as I've said I'm not sure that the problem is one of overheating and so to my limited knowledge this shouldn't matter anyway.

No-one I've approached with this problem has seen anything like it before, and I'm only bringing this up again in the hope that between my original posts and now someone else might have seen something like this and know what it is. To be honest, even if I can't fix the problem I'd take consolation in the mystery of exactly what's causing it to be solved.

06-25-2003, 04:47 AM	#9 (permalink)
tomedcollins Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: nr. Heathrow Airport, England Posts: 6	OK, resurrection of an old thread here. To bring anyone reading this up to speed, my cleaning exercise did the trick ... for six months. Now, the problem is back with a vengeance. Doing yet another dust clean and leaving the side panel off of the case to try and give the computer better ventilation worked a treat, for all of a week or so. Last night though the problem came back yet again, and my old hunch about the problem maybe being one of overheating was seemingly proved wrong by the fact that the system seemed quite cool when the corruption exhibited itself. I don't think it's a question of drivers as I've upgraded several times between my original posts and now (I'm currently running Detonator 43.45 drivers). The only other thing that comes to mind is that maybe the graphics card is too close to the modem and keeping heat close to the card, although as I've said I'm not sure that the problem is one of overheating and so to my limited knowledge this shouldn't matter anyway. No-one I've approached with this problem has seen anything like it before, and I'm only bringing this up again in the hope that between my original posts and now someone else might have seen something like this and know what it is. To be honest, even if I can't fix the problem I'd take consolation in the mystery of exactly what's causing it to be solved.