On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 10:28 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On an old PC i had, I found that the CPU fan/heat sink had got very
> dusty, 
Similar. Some days the CPU fan started and the PC was OK, sometimes it
didn't start and the PC would crash.
I resorted to just giving the fan a flick at startup. (well, it was an
old and almost redundant PC).
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