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fried(?) computer hangs on boot



Hi!
My computer (running Sarge) overheated and hung the night before last. I didn't realize why it had hung until it had been overheating for a few hours (I went to bed, waiting for it to unhang, hence the delay), then when I woke up I figured out why it was probably hanging and turned it off. While it was off, I cleaned an incredible amount of dust and cruft out of the CPU heatsink, so that explains the overheating.

Anyway, after it had cooled off thoroughly, I tried turning it back on, and there doesn't seem to be any damage to the MB or the processor because it'll boot, but once it gets to (and actually most of the way through) booting runlevel 3, it just hangs. It doesn't matter what program it's starting (I've played around with the symlinks), it just gets to a certain point and hangs. Maybe it's a timing thing?

I'm pretty stumped by this whole thing. Is it a problem with the processor? Or is the disk corrupted? I'm using ext3, which I know is *less likely* to corrupt, but heat will still corrupt a journalled fs. Do I have to just reinstall from scratch?

I'm trying to get my computer up as fast as I can because it's the firewall/gateway for my family's LAN. At the moment I'm stuck with my parents' Win2k computer, I moved the modem to this computer, but I want to get it back behind a firewall ASAP.

Anyway, TIA.

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