RE: No response after running for several hours

Rick, 

You've gotten some good advice and if you ARE suspecting overheating, take
the case off and check the fan(s), CPU heat sink, etc. for dust. NOT saying
your house is no clean, but I have been AMAZED at the dust that gets sucked
into these newer PC's with dual fans, etc. Not so surprised at work because
we are a wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating and cooling equipment
and supplies and all of our branches are combo warehouse/counter sales, etc.
and "dust" is the norm. But I was AMAZED at the amount the PC's I have at
HOME suck in. This is a 3 year old custom built home; the folks building it
were religious about nailing wood over the vent openings during initial
construction (in case you didn't know, lots of folks like to sweep stuff
into these if they are left open !), etc. And you would think we lived in a
grain silo or something will all the "dust" in the PC's.

Chuck

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Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:23 AM
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Subject: [PCTECH] No response after running for several hours

I have a home PC that seems to just check out after a while.  If the system
is left alone long enough, when I come back, it won't respond.  The monitor
has gone into sleep mode and moving the mouse or pressing a key doesn't
bring it back.  I changed out video cards and no difference.  I'm wondering
if maybe the system is overheating but I don't know how to check that out.
The system is an AMD 1700 CPU on an ECS K7S53 system board.  Can anyone help
with how to determine if the system is overheating?  Any other suggestions
would be welcome also.

Rick