Starts for 30 seconds and shuts down?

Immmediately after last update of Mountain Lion - failed to fully boot up.
Battery fully charged.
Power adapter led shows green
When left alone, after removing battery - holding down poer button >10secs and replacing battery and charger and pushing power button... after a few minutes, it will attempt to boot - screen shows rotating daisy for approx 20-40 secs, chime sounds and shut dow occurs.
I have put the iBook in the fridge and in 30 mins will try again to boot up, my initial feeling is that there may be a failure of the cooling system?
Anyone been here? TIA

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