okay Im back
The problem on mine was the PSU - or more specifically the fan in the PSU. The PC was working at some points yesterday but sounded like it was a jet engine about to take off and screached like crazy. The noise made the router lights flash rather erractically it was that bad.
Then to top it off the fan on the graphics card on the brats PCs also bust... so the 2 PCs were suddenly in competition to see which could make the most noise. Really dunno what it is with fans this week, but when I opened up kims the CPU fan also wasnt too clever and had cracked so that one needed fixing too.
Unfortunately this month has been very expensive with several unexpected expensive bills and it wasnt looking too good as my Visa card had already taken a hammering.
Anyhow Chris came round this afty with his soldering iron and weve had some "fun" with make-shift stuff rather than having to shell out for new kit. A mix of solder, superglue, cable ties and some spare fans have got both PCs up and running again.
Thanks ever so much to chris for soldering a new fan on my PSU so thats all sorted. Theres no way I would (could) have attempted to do that myself.
... but I have to show the amusing pic of the "contraption" to get the kims PC working again. The 4" fan replaced the tiny 2" one that was already on there.
Much cheaper than a new graphics card
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