On Monday 16 January 2006 22:05, tigerflag wrote:
> On Monday 16 January 2006 03:22 pm, Vaughn Treude kindly wrote:
> > Thanks for the ideas, Craig, Miles, Austin, and Cat. I think the CPU
> > fan is OK, and the CPU temperature was good at least when I first
> > powered it up. Unless the fan is randomly stalling out, I doubt it's
> > heat related, since the timing is so sporadic. (Then again, the fact
> > that it sometimes won't come up for a couple of minutes does make it
> > seem heat-related.) So far it's been up and running for 2 hrs now. The
> > next time it shuts itself off I'll open it again and look at the caps.
> > I didn't notice any capacitor gook when I had it open earlier but I
> > wasn't looking for that either. :-) If all else fails, I'll send it
> > back for warranty service.
>
> This has me curious. These things can drive you crazy, I know. At some time
> or another I've experienced almost everything all you geniuses suggested.
> Let us know what it turns out to be.
>
> Siri Amrit
I know this is a bit late to chime in, hopefully you have the roblem sussed by
now, however, I had the same problem with an AMD Proc just a few weeks ago. I
used heat sink "tape" instead of the usual compound paste. Removing the tape
and replacing it with the paste cured the problem.
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