Aah, nothing like the sound of a dying fan in the morning!
Waking my computer from its overnight slumber, the soothing whine of 10,000rpm hard drives was rudely disturbed by a loud grinding sound. I popped the side panel off (a benefit of the old Antec workstation-class case) and quickly located the sound – the fan on my equally old video card.
So, instead of a leisurely morning catching up with my news feeds and twitter, I got to spend quality time with a spare fan, some glue and some small zip ties. The old fan was cut out, leaving the non-standard mounting frame, then the new fan was glued on top of the remains and the zip ties held it in place while the glue cured. Kind of ghetto, but it works fine and is quiet again.
I could really do with a video card upgrade, but that would need a motherboard update, and a new CPU and memory, and a new power supply… Basically a whole new computer. One day…
