Well, another piece of hardware failed here at HQ. The chipset fan on my main server seemed to have stopped, and it was causing the Via KT133A chip to run very, very hot. This was causing intermittent lock-ups and other odd behavior on my box which is typically very reilable. I made an afternoon trip to Fry’s to try to find a very esoteric chipset cooler that would attach to my motherboard. To my delight, they did manage to have a
Thermaltake Orb Chipset Cooler heedlessly tucked away on a clearance shelf. I think the Orb cooler is intended for Geforce cards, but it does fit precisely in the two pre-drilled holes on my A7V133 motherboard. So, after installing the new chipset cooler, all was still not well. Apparently, there was some problem with my PSU’s 5V rail. So, I replaced that with a spare that I had laying around. After that, everything seemed to be back in working order, and my chipset was running 7 degrees cooler.