XP computer restarting

I have an old xp computer that I revived and I have been running as a server since september. It sits in my dad's office all day and runs constantly, except for 2 instances where it was turned off (power outage and household power work)

Today, it just turned off then immediately back on. It repeated this constantly, running for a couple seconds each time.

I killed the power supply switch to it while I grabbed a monitor and keyboard (it was running without them for all this time). When I turned it back on, I went into the bios and watched the temperature. It was slowly climbing, but it was around 60 C. I then went to check some other stuff, and it shut down. I estimate the CPU was at around 65 at the rate it was climbing. It then restarted and continued on restarting every couple seconds like it did before.

I think this is some sort of heat issue, but I'm not sure. I am going to try now to get into windows instead of sitting in the bios. It has been sitting off while I typed this.

I think I got the problem fixed. I opened it up and blew the dust off the CPU fan, and the temp dropped to 32 C. I'm now testing it with 3d studio max. It has been running for about 15 mins now.

Hello viper110110,

Congratz! That's good to know that you have fixes the problem on you own. Keep it UP. Don't hesitate to let us know if you have any concerns in the future. Great job!

Thanks,

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