Dust can be a killer, in the heat department.  At home, my Windows 2000 box was acting a little odd (totally random BSODs), and I noticed that the CPU was running hot, hot, hot.  I shut down, cracked the case, and shoo-ee-doggie, there was a lot of dust in there.  The CPU heatsink was COMPLETELY clogged with dust.  After blowing the dust out and giving it a good vacuuming, all was well.

The moral of this tale:  watch the dust in those PC cases!  At work, I really don't see that much dust in the cases, but at home...  watch out!  Especially with these new-fangled high-speed (high-heat) CPUs.

Art Frank
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>>> "Wayne R. Boyer" <[log in to unmask]> 08/05/02 09:44AM >>>
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FYI: Flaky temperature sensors can cause flaky readings resulting in LOTS of false console messages.  When we had this in the past I think that a thorough cleaning out of dust inside the CPU enclosure cured this.  It wasn't the CPU chip/board that was too hot, just a dust covered sensor.

Wayne Boyer

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