So I go into town for lunch today, come home and my computer's running a bit slow (it's a Core i7 2.6GHz, so it doesn't generally do "slow"). I guess that I've probably got jobs running in the background, and think no more of it.
After a couple of hours, though, I figure enough's enough and reboot. Cue two BIOS warnings:
"CPU fan failure!"
"CPU over temperature error"
Feck. So this thing's been running for at least the last two hours without a CPU fan at all. Obviously, I yank the power cable (although why the urgency now escapes me), pull the side off and have a look inside - turns out that the dog had been in my office and bashed into the computer, somehow dislodging a tied cable which was now blocking the fan. I tied it back in place, switched it on, and...within about 20 seconds the CPU dropped from 70 C to 45 C, and all was well.
15 years ago I had something similar happen (with an overclocked Celeron 300A), which pretty much cooked itself in seconds. Thank you, Intel, for finally designing something which doesn't release its smoke when something goes wrong.
Phew indeed.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
My macbook pro had overheating probs this year and it buggered the graphics totally. Pulled it apart, reflowed the graphics chip and threw some software on that allowed me to speed up the fans. Been good for some months now! One was pleased with ones-self. This was my facebook post:
(apologies - thought it was smaller!)
Yeah the K6 and PC Chips combo was a frigging disaster especially as the jumpers for setting the clock speed multipliers were wrong. So inadvertent overclocking equaled PC death very soon, mind you other cheapie mobos of the time suffered this too.
Cyrix were indeed hateful little things but at least they had the good grace not to die a hot death and nearly cause fires.
Today we have cheapie Asrock mobos to fill that hilarious void.