[luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repairplace?)

[al plant]

Ray Strode wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >1) Whirring sound (like a fan) when running which
> >wasn't the case when things were fine and beautiful.
> >The sound will sometimes kick into high gear and that
> >is the system's signal that it is about to crash.
> >
> If a walks like a duck.... :-)  It probably is a fan.
> 
> >2) Sometimes the system boots and sometimes it
> >doesn't.  If it fails, I'll get the XP version of the
> >blue screen of death.  (The sceen isn't blue but the
> >text which indicates the crash address and other
> >diagnostic info is.)
> >
> >3) If it manages to boot successfully, several system
> >failure errors are generated.  Sometimes that's eough
> >to halt the system, sometimes not.
> >
> >4) If I can proceed at all (which lately is not the
> >case) then evetually the whirring noise gets loud
> >enough and then BOOM.
> >
> This definitaley sounds like your CPU is overheating.
> 
> I agree with Mike.  Your fan is probably bad, or possibly some wire or
> something
> is block it from spinning properly (either could make your fan noisey).
> 
> If i were you i would open the case up and see if anything is blocking
> the fan....
> If so, unblock the fan.
> 
> If nothing is blocking the fan then pull the fan off and replace it.
> You may wanna
> pull the fan off anyway to clear any dust bunnies that have built up
> (canned
> air works well).
> 
> --Ray
> 
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My Wife Julie's PC running M$ Windows98 recently needed a second fan to
get rid of the above type of problem. She says it's ok now. 
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