Greetings to all here;

Within the last week, a problem has arisen.  My wife's Win95/ P-133 will
be rocking along just fine when suddenly it freezes. This has happened
twice or so while actually working in a program (various ones), and once
while idle, without any programs running.  Upon a reset/reboot, I get
nothing on the screen.  No POST, no lines, no nothing.  Black death.  (I
never thought I'd have wished to see a blue screen of death before-  at
least I would know it was alive). I've opened the box twice now,
checking
all cards and connections, and both times following this, I would turn
it
back on and it POSTS and boots just fine, with no loss of programs or
data.  Last night, I discovered it had gone black while unattended.  I
turned all power off, and turned it back on after 30 minutes or so.  It
did just fine.

The power supply fan is blowing cool/room temp air out the back, and I
visualized the CPU fan was working when I had the box open.  I have no
other auxillary cooling.

As you surmised, I suspect a heat related problem, (opening the box and
putzing around inside just allowed something to cool off, I guess ) but
my question is whether I should focus on the CPU or the 4.3gig Maxtor
HD.
 I run 2 hard drives and a CD-ROM in the box.  I would think a hot hard
drive would not shut down everything, but that I would get some kind of
system message error.  Is my CPU failing?  It's less than 5 months old,
and has worked great on the new Mobo.

What kind of auxillary cooling is recommended, if indeed this is the
problem?  (LOX?  Liquid nitrogen?  A bigger hamster?)

Robert Cunningham