On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Yaron wrote: > 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. All of those ideas made a lot of sense, so I tried them. There was a lot of dust. After all that, no change. I noticed that four of the capacitors on the mobo looked like they had popped, so I took it into General Nanosystems and had them replace the mobo ($65 + $45 labor, in and out in 45 mins). That seems to have worked, but the machine won't boot up because the new mobo is not the same as the old mobo. I'll start a new thread to ask about how best to deal with that issue. Mike