[plug] strangely crashing PPro [much shorter]

[William Kenworthy]

Is the the MB 2-3 years old and Taiwanese? (the capacitor industrial
espionage  scandel!)  Check the MB capacitors for bulging, leaking or
other signs of pressure buildup.  Happened to my own MB and the symptoms
were random lockups, eventually requiring the clockspeed to to be wound
back from 1.4G to 1G so it would stay up.

Not something you would normally look for.

BillK

>>> Next to PSU issues, memory failures have been my second most common
>>> cause of hardware "misbehaviour".
>
> Hmm. Well, I've picked up 4x32mb 72pin EDO DIMMs to drop in it. With
> 128mb of RAM, it should be able to run swap-less, and that may help
> isolate the problem.
>