Your symptoms are like the CPU fan or other fan has failed.
Bob
Friend of mine has an old computer(pentium II) with Win95. Recently it started freezing totally. It will load fine, work sometimes longer , sometimes for a while only and then totally freeze. It may run Ok for a while after a restart (by pressing the off button) and then it freezes again. If she tries to switch it off/on again eventually the system just sits there ,screen black , nothing. After few hours rest it will start, boot and work until the next freeze. It loads without problems from safe mode,
Where to start looking for problems? I ran Clean Sweep , there appears to be enough free disk space

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