And make sure ALL your fans are running! My sister's PC killed the processor
recently due to the CPU cooling fan (the one right on the processor) dying.
Unfortunately unless you went to real pains to buy good quality fans (CPU,
case, and power supply), most of the ones our there are worth a flip. About a
week after my sister's CPU died, I discovered the fan had quit in the power
supply of one of my machines. Luckily it's an older machine and not prone to
heat problems, but part of the supply that fed the fan had toasted some
capacitors. If you haven't done it for a while, open up your PCs and get some
canned air and blow them out - do this outside though as there can be a LOT
of dust in there. If you happen to be a smoker, it can be orders of
magnitudes worse, maybe even with sticky gunk inside. I've worked on some
that were used by heavy smokers - secondhand smoke is bad for PCs too.
Eddie
1971 Midget - Bebop
On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:34 am, Geoff Branch wrote:
> Hey all: In light of the recent thread about loosing computers (chuck):
> One of mine croaked about 2 weeks ago. We smelled hot burning electrical
> stuff in the room where it lived. Found the little air vent on the back
> blocked with dust, lint, etc. Killed the power supply and the mother
> board. In other words the whole thing. You all might want to check that
> little vent and save some aggravation.
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