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