hey Yrag, IP..

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with all of the dying hard drives and crazy boot problems, i thought this was humorous.

i turned off my machine for the first time in a month the other day, and when i came back and turned it on it ran for about 5 minutes then shut itself down. i turned it back on to whacked-out display settings. it ran for another 5 minutes, then shut off again. i thought this is strange, it is as if the thing is overheating.. my studio was hot, but not THAT hot! so i turn it back on and sit in my Bios, where it is giving me temperature readings and fan RPM's. system is running at 107fh, processor was at 156fh. i have an athlon, and it typically runs hot.. but that was.. REALLY hot.. however my system fan and processor fans were running fine. so i open up the case and inspect my 7 fans, thinking maybe it was the fan on the video card. everything was fine, but boy was the power supply hot. in fact, it was too hot to touch, and the back of the PS case nearly took the skin off my finger. i realized that the PS fan wasn't spinning.

so i kicked it.

the fan spun right up and began pushing out some extremely hot air. within 30 seconds the case was beginning to feel cool, and in a couple minutes was suprisingly the coolest part of the box.

so, i was suprised at how hot the PS gets over normal usage (mind you i'm using all of its 500 watts).. i was even more suprised at how efficient its fan was.. i figure it must have gotten stuck on some dust after i finally shut it off.

the moral of the story: everything works better when you kick it.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
From what I observed on a previous occasion, nothing could breathe in your studio let alone your computer.
Star Control: Origins
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I saw the same picture as Ande....your computer didn't stop working....it was hiding






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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OK..OK...my curiosity is getting the best of me Who is the maker of a 500w PS with one fan?



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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So much for curiosity....

hummmm....maybe he can't find his keyboard
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Probably having trouble finding the manual.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Damn...that''s what I shoulda done! I never kicked the dang thing...maybe all I needed to do was throw it a good beating...

See Ande, you don''t need to listen to Gary...if it don''t work kick it!!

Now where did I put that baseball bat...
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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Can ya just see a newbie coming here with a problem and the first response he gets is.....

....."OK, get a baseball bat and....."


I like it
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We used to stick a greenie screwdriver in fans that were making noise. It would rattle the fan and knock the dust out and start spinning at full speed again. This would hold us until we got a new fan in it a week or two later. Be careful with a PS fan though...Greenies conduct electricity.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nothing beats a good beating...
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
lol...

truth be told, I've done that and worse.

Has anyone ever used tooth paste and a tooth brush to clean the fingers on Peripheral Cards, SIM and DIM's when they will not hold a solid connection in a loose socket?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
IP, Did they look white and bright when you finished.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hehehe, well not White, but Bright and Gold
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use methylated spirits....[white spirit]....
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hehe. i forgot to take a picture of the studio to upload, its all clean!

Who is the maker of a 500w PS with one fan?


you know.. i never thought about that..probobly why it was so cheap. that one fan does its job well enough though, when it runs.. i have a case fan next to it that help out a lot as well.
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Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
DC

I've two Antec Case fans, one pushing the other pulling air through the box, a Antec Blower cooling my Video an Antec Blower pulling off the CPU and out the back. It might be a little louder than most would carefor, but I have the tunes cranked up so you can't hear it anyways and it keeps it cool enough
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have the tunes cranked up


Thats what I do too!
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
so i shut the computer off again today, came back tonight and turned it on. fan didn't spin up again. i didnt' feel like dragging the case out of it's little rolly thing again, so i just got behind it and whacked the PS a few times with my fist. didn't work. then i did something really brilliant... i stuck a screwdriver in it, through the little vent slits. i thought i could push it into starting.

after i reset the breaker and turned the machine on again, finding i had done no apparent damage to the unit, the fan still wasn't running so i spent a whole minute just punching it in random spots until i was satisfied with fan speed.

i guess this could have been avoiding if i just vacumed the dust out of it last time..


Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, here's the bad news...it in all likely hood is not dust. If that PSU goes wacky on you it could, and probably will, take everything else with it when it goes. I think you might want to grab a new one....


BTW: I admire your means of fixing stuff..
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmm... i had a powersupply take out a mainboard and processor a couple years ago, when my appartment had a power surge. definitly wasn't fun. the processor still worked but it, amazingly, was reading as a 400mhz chip when it was previously a 1.53 ghz chip.

that's a good call and i think i'm going to pick up a new box in the next couple of days.

...........

my brother had this monolith of a peice of crap computer he had built and whenever you walked up the stairs to his room, the computer would reset itself. it was the damndest thing. so one time he got so frustrated with it, he took a running start and kicked the thing square in the tower. a screw came flying out of the case. since then it worked fine...

we suppose there was a screw sitting on the mainboard in some non-visible spot, and everytime you walked up the stairs the vibrations would jostle the screw over something and short the machine out. a good kick cleared the pipes.

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my old car wouldn't start unless i kicked it a few times, too.. wans't the starter, either. silly Chrysler.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
haha staples wanted 100$ for a 430 watt PS
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
DC...if the fan sticks on startup.....replace the PSU NOW. Meltdown can kill your system totally. Preferably don't attempt to replace its fan, not unless you know what you're doing....and kicking electronic equipment 'feels good' but will do more damage than just to your foot...and is not recommended...
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My old Commodore 128 used to get real rackety after being on for about an hour. I would give it a good thump on top of the case and everything would be fine. I used to set drinks on it...occassionally spilling, smoke when using it, never ever opened the case to blow out any dust and that thing ran fine for years. The thing was still running fine when I got my first PC and got rid of it. Guess they don't make computers like the used to
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo's got the right of it, though changing the fan isn't hard as long as you buy a PSU fan. Antec sells them for around $12.00 and they have the correct connectors. Thing is if you do not get the exact one it can cause more grief than you care to have, soooo.

I'd op for a new PSU with the highest rating I could afford, also one that actually meters it's power out put on each line. Too much power is a bad thing but too little power is just as bad. Again Antec sells a metered PSU.