Periodic, temporary screen weirdness. (FC1 / Matrox Millenium)

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:07:27PM -0700, Scott Merritt wrote:
> 
> After using the machine for a while, everything will be fine and 
> *boom*. 
....
> Everything else works great, but this does get pretty annoying.  Any ideas?
....
> Pentium II - 266
> Matrox Millenium

One Idea, heat problem.
  Inspect the inside for dust and crud in heat sinks.
  Inspect and verify that all the fans are spinning.

My last 'annoying' problem was a hairball in the heat sink under a
small fan.  (my box was vintage Pentium II - 266; Matrox Millenium
too).

In my case a small fan was mounted on top of a heat sink blowing down
into the fingers of the heat sink.  Over time dust built up under the
fan where it was invisible on a quick inspection.


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