From: "Jon Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lately, my computer will do a warm boot restart with no provocation whatsoever while I'm working. I finally traced it to a heat problem so I run with the case off. Once I finish a full backup, I'm taking it apart this weekend to put everything in a bigger case. Should be interesting. I've never moved a motherboard before. With luck I won't screw it all up too badly. :)
Some advice: make sure you take note of what connectors on the MB correspond to the assorted LED's and switch wires on the old case. And note their polarity! Most MBs don't clearly mark those connectors at all, and it's a pain in the butt to have to try to sort it all out by experimentation for the new case, if you don't have your MB manual anymore.
Other advice: a bigger case won't help much if you don't have good ariflow through it. If you can, have an intake fan on the front of the case, and an exhaust on the rear, to pull air through. I'm sort of fanatical about this - I have approximately 8-9 fans in my (very large) PC tower case. It wasn't even that noisy until I installed an 8k RPM 60cm cpu fan, and then my PC sounded like a hair dryer. I go sick of that, so I gave up 3-4 degrees F of cooling and put in a slower one. (FYI: If that sounds like overkill, I'll mention that despite all the fans, I still occasionally get CPU temperature alarms (alert set at 160 F) when I run the computer for long periods in the summer with no AC in the room.)
Good luck!
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