Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Ah yes, no Monday morning would be complete without me crawling around 
>> the lab floor trying to fix obscure PC problems. :-}
> 
> Obscure recurring problems.
> 
>> Today, a PC wouldn't boot (or even POST). On Friday it was fine, today 
>> it won't work. The PSU is really very warm indeed. Turned it off, blew 
>> some dust out of it, let it cool for a while. Now it works fine. GO 
>> FIGURE.
> 
> ...and then it failed again. Once again the PSU feels much too hot. So I 
> replaced it.
> 

> cardboard box with a plain steel lump inside that has half a dozen 
> cables dangling off it.
> 

> each. And for that, you get a nicely printed box with a *shiny* metal 
> lump inside. It's metalic black (if that makes any sense at all) and has 
> a high-gloss finish. I can practically see my reflection in it! And on 
> the top it has a beautifully printed spec sheet with the company logo 
> next to it. And it claims to be "ultra-low noise". Well, in our lab, 
> that's kind of unimportant. (Recall that I measured sound levels of 80 
> dB and more in there!)
> 
> I wonder if it'll fix the problem though? Maybe the fan on the other one 
> just isn't spinning right any more or something? We'll see...
> 
>> I need a vacuum cleaner...
> 
> This turns out to be rather harder than you might imagine. You'd think 
> somebody somewhere would make a vacuum device especially for cleaning 
> the inside of PCs... but no. I found no end of USB-powered keyboard 
> vacuums, but that's it. I also found several portable car or household 
> cleaners, but they're not specifically designed for computers. Oh, and 

> so it has a high-quality filter on it.
> 
> Hmm, oh well!

They say the first sign of insanity isn't necessarily talking to 
yourself. Its when you start answering back that you've truly crossed 
the line into insane.

-- 
~Mike

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