486 dies terrible death

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Wed Jun 2 19:12:40 2004

There is a new noise cancelling fan design out now which uses 4 mini - L
/spkrs at the 4 fan corners plus electronics to kill fan sound. So next time
you won't even know the fan has gone until the transistors tell you.

Geoff. * *
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> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, William Maddox wrote:
>
> > The power supply fan is there to keep the power
> > supply cool. I'm not surprised that it died
> > catastrophically after being run with no fan.
>
> Oh? I thought it was just there to make a comforting whirring sound.
>
> ;)
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