FIXED! : Heat-whacked Cube prob

[Gnarlodious]

FIXED!
Disassembled every part of the Cube and reassembled it and it works normally
so far for 36 hours. (Knock on Lucite/Perspex)

My theory is that a corroded connection was aggravated by the heat, so in
this case it was not actually a heat-related problem so the GREY SCREEN OF
DEATH was not even seen.

Praise Gaia!

-- Gnarlie •
http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Entities/Computer/Cube/Cube.html

Entity Meirion Roscoe spoke thus:

> I had the same thing last summer.  we were doing some stuff in the
> cellar so my cube moved to the conservatory (sun-room for our
> transatlantic readers!).  We then had an unusually hot day for the UK
> and that evening, the whole thing had slowed to a crawl, took a week to
> boot up, and wouldn't run a single app worth talking about.  I got very
> worried, tried booting from the CD - took ages - no joy!  After I let
> cool down it was back to normal.  I screened the cube from direct
> sunlight after that.  Curiously, very soon after, I stuck in a 120GB WD
> HD and was so excited, I forgot to screen the cube; but even though
> we've had some stonkingly hot days (almost 65 DEG F! :-) since then, it
> never happened again.  Could it be that you're hard drive is on the way
> out and become a bit temp twitchy.  I am not an expert just a bumbling
> amateur, but I do know a tiny bit about hardware and heat just ain't
> good for 'em!
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
> Rossi