[CentOS] died again

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Sat Dec 7 11:33:11 UTC 2013


On 12/7/2013 3:01 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 00:58 -0500, Darr247 wrote:
>> >On 07 December 2013 @02:57 zulu, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> > >
>> >
>> >The CPU heat sink is under the fan pointing down towards the motherboard.
>> >You lift those 2 levers to release it, and there's likely another lever
>> >under it all locking the CPU into the socket.
> The picture is not very clear, but it looks as if the heatsink on the
> processor has collected a lot of dust, probably blocking the air flow.
> Do not yet remove the heat sink ( I am always weary of doing so) but try
> to remove the dust first if there is a lot of it.


geez, its a 10 year old pentium-4, and not even a late p4, a middle aged 
32bit-only one....   put it out of its misery, its been living on 
borrowed time for the last 5 years.



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast




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