meterman opened this issue on Jan 03, 2007 · 18 posts
svdl posted Sat, 17 February 2007 at 1:49 PM
Oh, thought of another thing. You could power up the machine with the hood off and check whether all fans work. I had to replace a mainboard last Christmas because the southbridge (the controller that takes care of hard disks, network, USB and so on) had gotten overheated due to a non-function fan. Expensive lesson, it cost me close to € 400 (needed to buy a new graphics card too, since the new mainboard didn't have an AGP slot. And needed a new PSU due to shortage of Molex connectors on the old PSU. Grrr.).
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter