Trouble starting up when cold

I bought my power mac about 5 years ago. Last year I started having trouble starting up when the machine was cold. I put a heater on the unit for about 30 minutes in the morning and then it would start up ok. Through the summer and once the weather got warmer there was no problem.
Now with the start of fall and cold nights, I seem to be having the same problem.
I am concerned that the system drive has five years of usage and am thinking of swapping it out. Any other thoughts???

Clone it weekly or twice a month.
Rotate and replace recycle drives
Backup your data even more - daily and weekly sets
In 5 yrs drives have more than doubled in performance, and other than in last month the price per GB (and MB/sec) has dropped.
SSDs are now pppular system boot drives, 10K drives have improved, 2TB $150-200 for media data and backup
Clone your system twice and if it has trouble swap it out and test/zero the drive.
Last year? you don't run on a bad tire or a system having trouble except to pull the drive/tire and put on spare.
There are procedures for repairing a sytem and drives, and then you get into "Why" and troubleshooting causes if necessary.

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