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8887 overheating?

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8/22/04 at 12:05am
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I've had my computer for a little over a year now. Just recently, it's started having some more problems. When it's been left on for a while, it just shuts off. not hibernating or anything, just shuts off. It i attempt to restart it immediately , it will just shut down again. If i leave it alone for a while, then it will start up again like normal and works just fine..... It seems to me like it might be overheating, and then shutting down as a precaution. What else might it be, and how can i fix it? Thanks.
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post #2 of 3
8/23/04 at 5:07pm
Open it up and blow out the dust (using compressed air). Also, as is often the case, the thermal transfer paste between the CPU and heatsink is burned up / gone bad.

I take the heatsink off and re-apply decent (arctic silver, et al.) thermal paste AFTER blowing everything out (vents, inside, etc.).

DUST is probably the #1 killer of electronic equipment (that and proper air flow - so it's hard not to have both).

-myrkat
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8/25/04 at 7:11pm
Hi...I have had a model 8880 going on 2 years now...mine behaved the same way about 8 months ago...it was the fan...and it was shutting itself down to protect the chip...so i sent in in for repairs...now...6-8 months later it is doing the same thing...only this time it shut itself off while i was doing a file transfer...when i got it rebooted i had lost my modem..(drivers) and my Device Manager was gone...tried to reload windows from the cd..while i was in safemode...and now it seems to be stuck trying to reboot to get out of safemode..why?..cause windows won't load in safemode..gawd what a nightmare
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