Excellent! Good to hear your P4 was throttling down instead of burning up in
that situation just like it's supposed to.

"Snowflake" wrote in message
om...
The problem has been solved.

I explained the problem to my computer-illiterate wife, and said I
thought the CPU was overheating becasue the fans weren't working for
some reason. She looked at me pathetically and reminded me we have
cats ... and cats have ... fur ...

Popped the lid, blew the cat hair out of the fans and the machine runs
perfectly. Duuuh!

Thanks for everyone who tried to help.


Snowflake