Thanks All,

It's pretty clean, and the fans work. But I'll have a closer look.
I just left it up over night and the cg3 was still
in one piece the next morning.
I'll be hoping it's a one off.

Paul.




der Mouse wrote:

> > When the cg6 was removed it booted.  The centre of the main SunGX
> > chip is a bit browned and trying to boot with it I noticed it was
> > very hot.
>
> Oh, that does not sound good.
>
> First thing I would do is get out a vacuum and vacuum out all the dust
> grilles.  Sounds as though cooling was insufficient, which to me says
> that either fans have gone out or things are clogged with dust.  If the
> machine hasn't been vacuumed out in the last year or two, my money
> would be on dust.
>
> > The cg6 sat in my old ss2 for years with no problem and then 1 day in
> > the new ss5 and kaboom.
>
> That's one reason I suspect cooling.
>
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