[pchelpers] Re: Up and running

Billyus Eximius wrote:
> John, you asked me to keep you updated with regard to me loosing power. Well 
> it turned out to be an overheating chip, the fan was going, never stopped, 
> but after things got worse, I changed the board and chip, to a 64 type and 
> hopefully all is now ok,
> Billy

That was likely to fix it. In some cases (such as the motherboard that 
now runs my web server), this problem was due to a worn out fan bearing. 
In other cases it has been caused by loss of thermal conduct between the 
chip and the heat sink. Did you check those before replacing?

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