OT: system shuts off sporadically

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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
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