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WarriorOfSouls's blog: "PC Surgery"

created on 01/21/2007  |  http://fubar.com/pc-surgery/b46792
Recently I had a small problem with my PC.. it would randomly just power off.. So I investigated the problem. I found the fan on my power supply was not running at all. What fun. This had happened before.. And I managed to make it work then.. So I dived on in. First I had no screw driver.. And compaq loves these little allen key type screws... So I grabbed a pair of scisors and started trying to get the screws for the power supply off.. Well, using the dullest pair of scisors I have, I started trying to get enough pressure.. And ended splitting my thumb open in the process. But of course I didn't notice right away.. So I found a butter knife in the kitchen and found it was working quite well. Soon however I began having trouble getting the tougher ones off.. When I got the power supply out.. I still had to get at the fan IN it.. And these had little star point screws.. I got 4 of the 8 off easily.. and struggled for a LONG time with the other ones.. finally I got it all of. Noticing near the end I had cut my thumb.. And had tracked blood over all the chords and the corners of a few chips/boards in my PC.. GREAT. I go to the task of getting the 4 fan screws out and dismember the fan.. EVERYHTHING was covered in dust.. So i cleaned it out good and used some cooking oil to lube up the fan. 2nd time cooking oil's saved me PC. I fought for another LONG time to get it all back in and spent another half hour cleaning a thick layer of dust out of my processor fan.. No air was getting to the heat sink. It was sooo clogged.. I brushed everything off good and put it all back together, praying. I ended up formatting my main hard drive later that week, for some issues i was having with my crap running sooo slow. But it's been running GREAT since I fixed those problems. Theres now tiny flecks of blood covering various cords and cards on my computer.. There was a litte before.. but now my computers definately integrated with/asimilated with my DNA. BEAT my security.. I got ghosts making my system run. Doing things it shouldn't be able to handle. And doing them well. Somehow surviving. Only took me 2 hours.. Wish I'd had a screwdriver.. I'da been done in half that.. And saved the blood. Oh well. time well spent. My and my hunk of scrap metal had some bonding time.. It was all good fun.. More next time ;) Damien Killcannon Vryce the WarriorOfSouls
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