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To: mark3681
older Dell; Dimention 2350, Pentium 4, 1.5 ghz.

And you admitted to that on an open forum. Ritual suicide is the only honorable path open to you.

Be honest, you're running Windoze 95, aren't you?

/johnny

15 posted on 02/24/2012 7:19:41 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

No Johnny. I really am running XP SP3.
To tell you the truth I almost committed ritual suicide a few weeks back. Take a minute and follow along.

PC kept shutting down. Couldn’t get it to restart no matter what I did. I’d press the power button, it would start to power up, then click off.

I noticed that the longer it sat off the further along the boot process it got before it clicked off.

I opened the machine and check things out. I noticed a metal bracket laying in the bottom. I pulled the cooling fan tunnel out (the plastic chute that pulls air across the CPU) and found the heat sink leaning out away from the mother board!

Well, the CPU was overheating and shutting down! The plastic bracket that screws on to the mother board had lost two of the ears where the heat sink clips clip on to.

Well, being the mechanically inclined person I am I decided to fix it. Long story longer: I modified the plastic mount. This caused me to have to modify the heat sink because the clips would no long clip to the original places. I cut the heat sink with a hack saw to make room for the clips, etc.
Put it all back together and WHAM! Works like a champ and has been ever since!

How can I give up such a fine, reliable, OLD machine?


24 posted on 02/24/2012 7:30:09 PM PST by mark3681
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To: JRandomFreeper
older Dell; Dimention 2350, Pentium 4, 1.5 ghz.

And you admitted to that on an open forum. Ritual suicide is the only honorable path open to you.

Be honest, you're running Windoze 95, aren't you?

/johnny

That was about three or four PC's ago for me.

36 posted on 02/24/2012 10:43:25 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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