This is getting annoying

[mdlbear]

For the last several months the machine I'm currently using as my desktop machine has had the annoying habit of freezing up on occasion. It seems to be a thermal problem -- at first it only happened when 3-D screensavers came on, then about a month ago it started happening while transcoding video files. It's happened three times today, for no apparent reason. The fans are working -- noisily, but they're working.

I really don't want to spend any more money on computers this year. Especially since next year I'll presumably have some business income that I'll want to offset. But this machine's days are numbered. Probably in 5 bits or less.