While computing away,
On a fine day,
I heard what sounded like a fan stopping in my tower.

I quickly started up a temp monitor and found both case and CPU temps on
a much too rapid increase and shut down. I later learned that the big (5
inch) PS fan was still going great guns - maybe saved my bacon.

I found my rear case input fan dead, and replaced it, but dust marks
from the grill indicated it had been dead for some time.

Later I tried starting the computer and it sounded pretty normal, oddly
enough, so I let it boot.  Come to think of it, it was almost as if the
cooler had overheated, shut down, cooled off and reset itself, altho I
had never heard of such a thing.

Now it seems to run hotter than before (50C and 51C), altho I don't know
of any temp log to prove my point.  A rise in room temperature will push
it even higher.  And this after (yet another) blowing out of dust.

A few months ago I got things arranged to my satisfaction by cleaning
off the top of the CPU and putting on a dab of silver grease.  I suspect
a dab of silver grease won't get it this time.  But I'm not at all sure
what will.

Suggestions?  Does my main cooler need replacing?  Did the burned out
case fan overwork it?  Is there an evil spirit in my computer?  Did my
ex give me a hex?

(I don't think component specifics are relevant here.  The cooler WAS
matched to the CPU, according to several sources.  More than that, my
back won't permit me to hunch over looking for identifications right
now.)

Jim L, via eCS 1.24 version of OS/2
-- 
Stock market investers are expressing concern that... aw, who gives a flying fig!




------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 

 
Yahoo! Groups Links

 To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/

 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    os2hardware-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com

 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



---