![]() Dust is the enemy as it restricts airflow and acts as an insulator which contributes to overheating, hardware death and is a fire hazard. ![]() Vacuum brush or blow out the dust to restore air flow and proper cooling. Just four screws to remove the power supply unit from the tower, another two screws usually opens up the actual power supply. Quite simple, don't need to worry about voiding a warranty. Highly recommend anyone with old hardware always clean out the power supply unit. The system has performed well for many years, nothing special with the rebuild. With a decent work area and basic tools a thorough job takes 1-2 hours, especially if the power supply is opened and the processor is re-seated. If possible try to complete a rebuild in one session, makes it much easier to remember screws and connections, etc when re-assembling. Want to do it every year but never enough time, guess it depends on the computing environment and runtime. Probably been over two years since this hardware was rebuilt. Huge jump in minimum system requirements with Vista onward, don't have the hardware for any of these more modern Windows OS'. IIRC the system requirements for Windows XP were decent for older hardware. If the Windows XP install dies hope to convert it to Windows 98. The hardware is a circa 2001 Giga-Byte motherboard, 800 MHz Intel Celeron Coppermine processor, 512 MB RAM, Intel i810 graphics, AC'97 sound, D-Link ethernet. Recently rebuilt and thoroughly cleaned an old tower that sweetly runs Windows XP and Devuan Ascii (Debian 9). Some anti-climactic, my life would not have been any less complete without them, did that make sense :) Some are more fun that others, of course. ![]() For me it's been fun to finish some games i've waited too long to play. Thanks for the post RainyShadow, hope you eventually finish the game. ![]()
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