still having the problem? give the low down againnn OP is gone from my
server
"LiveWire" wrote in message
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Check your CPU temperature. Pentium 4s will throttle down to keep
from frying themselves if they get too hot. (They also have a complete
shutoff mechanism in case of extreme overheating, but the throttling
mechanism
is usually able to limit the temperature before it gets to this point.)
The
throttling mechanism basically works by skipping clock cycles until some
heat
can dissipate. Tom's Hardware Guide did a demonstration in which they
had
Quake or something like that playing on a Pentium 4 that they removed
the
heat
sink from -- it got REALLY SLOW, but it didn't crash or freeze. Sounds
like
your CPU might have insufficient cooling, and 5 to 10 minutes is how
long
it
takes to heat up enough for throttling to start.

Thanks anyway, but heat is definitely not the problem. Using a retail
HS/F
and the temps (on average) are in the mid to high 30's. I can play much
more graphic and CPU intensive games such as Unreal Tournament 2003 for
hours with no problems at all.

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LiveWire