OT: Well anything for a little traffic

[GCC Consulting]

:-)
> 
> Is there another holiday coming up Monday that I've forgotten?  :)
> 
> > Meanwhile, since the place is empty of messages... Did you get your 
> > machine fixed yet?
> 
> Believe so, yes thanks.  
> 
> A little less than a week ago, the system had Win2K reporting 
> that the CPU was misreporting its speed.  I fixed that by 
> rewriting the NVRAM from inside the BIOS.  More like fixed a symptom.
> 
> Then today, it just plain powered down.  We restarted it, it 
> went about 5-10min, and it died again.  Then it wouldn't fire 
> up at all--the power light would just flash and it wouldn't 
> do anything.  Left it a few, it came up.  We're looking at 
> the BIOS indicators...104F on the CPU, not too bad.
> 3300+rpm on the CPU fan, 2600+ on the chassis fan, okay, 
> they're spinning.
> And it just shuts itself down while we're in the middle of that.
> 
> Got a new power supply today...480-watt with dual UV LED 
> fans.  The thing runs quieter, about 20F cooler from the feel 
> of both the case and the area in back of the case, and it's 
> been chugging away for about 4.5 hours now. 
> 
> I won't call it fixed until it's been up 24-72hrs without 
> incident, but it
> -appears- to be fixed.
> 
> Interestingly, given what we have in it, the tech at the shop 
> recommended at 350-watt minimum.  I wanted 450 to be safe in 
> case I add anything, but that was like $79, but they had a 
> special on this one with two fans with the funky lighting for 
> $55.  So I said fine, go for it.  :)  
> 
> I'm -guessing- (based largely on talking to someone else) 
> that when we added the second HD, we started taxing the 
> original 300-watt power supply, and it ran warmer, entropy 
> increases, and the thing just fried itself eventually.  Kaput.  
> 
> New one seems to be working just fine so far, but I'm 
> paranoid enough that I won't fully trust it for a few days to 
> a week.  Probably after 72hrs without incident.
> 
> It's good to have it back!  :)  And now it emits a purple 
> glow behind it with those weird UV-LED lighted fans.  *laugh* 
>  Oh boy.  :)
> 
Mark,

With your larger power supply, you might want to consider one of those drive bay
fans. That's if you have the available space. I've seen some with thermometers
to keep track on inside temperatures.

I did this for one on my clients when we I installed a pair of cheetah drives.

Just went through them same problem with a workstation at a clients.  Since this
was an old computer, removed the side panel and placed a fan next to it to cool
the power supply while I ran pcRelocator on it to move everything (hat could be
moved) from Win98 to XP.  

Once the new machine was up and running, I did a case transplant and gave the
transplanted computer to the president of the company to use.  He believes that
his employees should have the newest and fastest computers as they are the ones
doing the work.  He has been using a Pentium 133.  He's a very rare breed.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting