Maintain The Fans In Your Computer
I had to make an emergency run to Best Buys yesterday to pick up a new computer. This was my first bought computer since my Radio Shack TRS-80. I’ve always built my own computers but I needed to be back up and running the same day.
I bought an HP with 6gigs of ram, 650g HD, ATI video card, 15 – 1 memory card slot on the front and some other goodies.
The first thing I did was remove Norton and install Pc-cillin Internet Security Pro. If you want a virus free, worry free system, INSTALL Pc-cillin!
So, how did I get myself into a situation where I needed to buy a computer? One day a few weeks ago my computer started to make noise. I could tell from the noise that one of my fans was going bad. So a few days later I rounded up some 80mm and 40mm fans and sat down and took the cover of my computer. Power supply fan, my intake fan and both out take fans were fine, even the CPU fans was working ok. However, a chip on the mother board had a heat sink/w fan on it and that was the one causing all the noise.
If I could do it over again I would have rigged up something but I didn’t. I figured I could live with the noise until I found the proper replacement heat sink and fan for the chip.
The long and short of it is the fan took a powder before I found a replacement and fried the chip. So instead of dropping $15 or $20 dollars I dropped $700 (doing my thing to help the economy).
So now I have an up to date computer system and I plan on getting a new mother board for the old computer. I’ll install Win 2000 or maybe Small Business Server (only because I have it) on it and make it a file server. This way I can back up all the other computers in the house onto the new server.
The moral of this story… Don’t ignore the noise, FIX the fans ASAP.
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