Roy At this point, what do ya got to loose? you would be surprised at the cobbled thing i got on my desktop...... I would definitely not operate it without a CPU fan......... D
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am on my second eeePC. My wife dropped my first one, a first > generation 7 inch, and smashed the screen. Aside from that it works. > My new one, a 9 inch, started to make noises just as the warranty > expired. Go figure. I could not localise it, but think it was the fan. > Anyway, it seems to have given up the ghost, almost completely. The HD > works fine, so I can only guess that it was the fan as it has no other > moving parts. My question is this, can I pull the fan out of the 7 > inch and put it into my 9 inch, which has the same processor, Atom? > If so, is it hard and what is the best way to go about this? What are > the dangers of running it without the fan working in the meantime? I > think that I know hat the answer will be, but it something that I use > daily and will miss it. :( > > Roy > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > Location: Canada > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
