Subj : Re: Is anyone else getting hard computer lock ups with this month's MR
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From : rhhardin@mindspring.com
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:14 pm

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Ant wrote:
> Yep, it is heat related since I left the left side case open and ran 7.5
> hours of MRT.exe full scan. And then, I tried Prime95's mixed tests and
> that only lasted aboug 5 minutes. :(

Almost certainly the CPU fan, which gives a hard shutdown without warning.

Google for replacing the cpu fan on whatever machine you have, to get a clue
what to 
order.  CPU fans tend to come from China and turn up in the mail in a few
weeks.
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