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<blockquote data-quote="nsciacca" data-source="post: 1001482" data-attributes="member: 144384">We had a similar problem for over a year - tried a ton of stuff, turned out that the Video Card had a build up of dust over the heat sink that we didn't see when we cleaned it out on the first try. Depending on your video card this could be the issue - we have the NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT KIT, although similar problems have been reported on the X1900.The cleaning of the video card fixed the following:- Loud fan noise running almost constantly- Computer failing to restart- Start up not always working, taking multiple triesSee Apple Support Forum<a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1647839&amp;start=0&amp;tstart=0" target="_blank">http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1647839&amp;start=0&amp;tstart=0</a>See pics of video card<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yjue8k9" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yjue8k9</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="nsciacca, post: 1001482, member: 144384"] We had a similar problem for over a year - tried a ton of stuff, turned out that the Video Card had a build up of dust over the heat sink that we didn't see when we cleaned it out on the first try. Depending on your video card this could be the issue - we have the NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT KIT, although similar problems have been reported on the X1900. The cleaning of the video card fixed the following: - Loud fan noise running almost constantly - Computer failing to restart - Start up not always working, taking multiple tries See Apple Support Forum [url]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1647839&start=0&tstart=0[/url] See pics of video card [url]http://tinyurl.com/yjue8k9[/url] [/QUOTE]

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