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from slow down to constant reboots

Had a client today whose computer he says started slowing down in the last few days that it was difficult performing simple operations. The slowing down gradually got worse until finally the computer kept rebooting on its own every time right after windows was loaded. When I picked up the computer today and ran it at my lab, non of those problems existed. What would you attribute this problem to. This is a Dell Windows XP SP3 with Intel processor.

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I must mention that right off the bat at the clients location I booted in safe mode and the computer worked fine (no rebooting). Do you think if it was overheating issues, then safe mode would have duplicated the problem. Any thoughts on that?
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Thank you all for the excellent suggestions. If it happens again, I will look for dust on the heat sink/fan and run prime 95.
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The client did say he never turns it off so that could be an issue as well.