Comment RE: The Last Component To Fail In My Computer Was (Score 1) 715
... the CPU fan.
Seriously.
Once every 10 days or so, the CPU fan just stops out of the blue. The temperature rises, then the computer (under Vista) shuts down. But when I start the machine again, I have to manually coax the fan to start! And I have to wear a glove because I don't want the blades to cut me up. It can even take me a dozen tries until the fan gets going.
I know it's not the fan per se. It's an electrical problem somewhere, a mixed or bad signal sent to the fan.