486 dies terrible death

From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Jun 4 22:30:21 2004

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:40:29 -0700
Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:47, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > My voicemail PC died a pretty terrible death this morning. ...
> > The power supply fan went bad on it a while ago (over a year, surely
> > longer) and I never bothered replacing it
>
> Umm, power supply fans aren't optional. If the top of the box is hot
> you can be sure some hot components inside the box are 40 - 100
> degrees hotter, the top of the box is a low average temp of the junk
> inside!
>

I once noticed that the Power Supply fan in my bosses' computer had
died.
The way I noticed was that the CD-ROM disc she pulled out of her machine
and handed me was hot.
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 22:30:21 BST