On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Mike Miller wrote:

> Another thing I noticed is that the CPU fan comes on as if the CPU is hot

That's actually normal - fans will usually start at max before the 
governers tell them to slow down. This might indicate the motherboard is 
not initialising all the way.

The whole tear-down-and-rebuild suggestions are good - I'd add that maybe 
you should spray the dust the hell out of it too.


-Yaron

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