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My sister started yelling for me, when I get to the computer it had shut off and the small speaker inside was sounding like an alarm.

My guess is it overheated. Amazingly a unplugged it and restarted it and am post from that computer.

Its an Emachine about 3 years old. Am I correct about the problem?

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Thats pretty hard to say without more details.

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Just checked my computer......

OMG!

So much dust I am amazed it ran as long as it did. It is now much faster without the dust :)

It may as well not have had a heatsink or any fans it was so bad. Same with my server.

The computers are in the laundry room atm. (moms idea) so the drying is obviously the cause of so much dust.

I'm installing software to monitor the fans and heat on the cpu now.

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Doh! Heat alone from the dryers is not going to help, let alone the dust blanket from the lint. That's just "universally stupid" to quote a certain someone...

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To drop the temperature without more fans I'd recommend CPUIdle (http://www.cpuidle.de/), it cools the CPU by sending what are basically "sleep" commands during unused CPU time. On the downside it's useless if you're hammering the CPU because there's no free time for the CPU to sleep during.

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Its an Emachine about 3 years old. Am I correct about the problem?

You will probably find in the next year (making the computer 4 years old) the PSU will die taking the motherboard, CPU, RAm and probably the hard disk with it as well.

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Its an Emachine about 3 years old. Am I correct about the problem?

You will probably find in the next year ... PSU ... die taking ... hard disk with it...

that means BACK UP!

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I backup my personal files monthly anyway.

This computer is manly my parents so yeh.... I'll need to.

Is it just the brand that is the reason for the possible psu problem? I have an old server from dell that still runs and it was originally a 95 or 98

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Is it just the brand that is the reason for the possible psu problem?

Yes, I'm amazed this isn't more wildly known. They are crap PCs, not worth the money you paid for it.

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Don't know.

I only know about the problem with eMachiens because it's such a huge problem, which is why I'm amazed that it isn't wildly known.

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People who paid for the extra warranties (since this always seems to happen in the middle of the 4th year of the computers use) basically get a brand new computer in the same case.

At least PC World do keep there word in that respect.

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