David Evans wrote:

> Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > 
> > This commonly happens to cars up here in canada.  You park your nice warm
> > car overnight and a cat inevitably finds its way into the engine compartment
> > and falls asleep...
> 
>   For the record I have *never* seen this happen.  ;-)
>   Back to the rancid 5000/200...it could just be dust.  Evil dust.  There's
> a surprising amount of it around in old hardware.  The rough surface of
> ceramic IC packages tends to trap it and make it hard to remove, while their
> heat lets it release all its juicy goodness.  You could try cleaning the
> inside with heavy-duty compressed air.
>   Also try disconnecting the power supply from the motherboard and turning
> it on to determine where the vermin live.

We once had an ant nest in a power-supply (although I didn't see it in
the ... umm ... flesh).  I'm sure David Burren will post all the gory
details :-)

Simon.