Gidday All > On Friday, 5 October 2001 2:08 AM, Manuel Drake wrote: > <snip> > Good call, willdo soon... just lost a fan on my Slack server, so the fun > goes on...
I don't know how many others bother, but when I get a fan that starts to get noisy or stop I get a syringe with some light oil and poke a very small hole in the sticky label in the middle of the fan, and squeeze some oil into it. You need to find the hollow behind the label or of course the needle won't go in, and come in from the top so as to keep the oil from running back out. Saves having to remove the power supply, or buy a new fan and best of all takes less than 2 mins to get the computer up and running again. Then you can decide whether or not to replace it at a more opportune time They usually go for another 12 mths or more. I don't think I would do it on the CPU fan but hey in an emergency, it's worth remembering. Regards Max
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