John Hall wrote:
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My PC at home has failed again. I think it may have breathed its last.
I will probably be offline and unable to post in the evenings for the
next few days at least. Posting this from work whilst on night duty
for the EU summit and hoping the night will not be too long ...

Could the processor be overheating in the recent hot weather (which I
assume Brussels has also experienced)? If so, then when the weather is
cooler again the machine may be fine (though obviously a failure
whenever it's hot is tedious, so a replacement for the chip and/or fan
might be a good idea).

My last computer had overheating problems so this one has a 120mm heat
sink on the back of the processor, plus the case is big enough to NOT
have the processor hidden behind the power supply.

Btw, I maybe updating erratically next week as my main computer will be
out of action while I send the memory sticks back to crutial before they
post me new ones. It's a long story, but memtest86 showed over 4000
error on an overnight run! Hence blue screen crashes, failing modules
and general glitches. Hopefully this will sort things out :-)

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net