The first thing I would do is check to see if all the cooling fans are spinning full speed or at all. If they are, check that your heat syncs all securely stuck to their chips. If they wiggle at all, you'll need to pull them off and Clean off all the old heat sync compound, reapply new stuff and put it back together. I just recently had a computer that was doing weird things. Turned out that one of the 4 clips that held the CPU heatsync/fan down had come loose and was causing a gap between the heat sync and CPU. I pulled it off, cleaned it up and stuck it back down and it's been fine ever since. Brian Cluff On 01/14/2014 07:12 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote: > So I shut the system down for a while, > and after about an hour, I tried it again > and it started up fine. > > It wasn't particularly hot (it's a Lenovo net-top) > but after cooling down, it started up okay ... > enough so that I could back up all my data. > > So what can I do to test the HD and other parts > of the system to see what the problem might be? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss