Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PMS Witch who wrote (4523)	7/17/1999 7:57:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110635

>> I don't think you'd want your fans to stop. Heat is the big enemy of computers. Your fans are your system's protection. Some systems have sensors to slow or stop the fans when the case is cool inside.<< But PW, what is my computer doing when it's on standby? Seems like nothing, so why the need for fans? I notice that the cpu fan goes off. It has a three-wire connector which allows it to turn-off automatically, but the case fan is two wires and is hard-wired to the power supply. Obviously they don't want you turning off your case fan or they would make a three wire type. I don't get it. >>If you had an icecube, mousetrap, and popsicle stick, you could set the trap to inject the popsicle stick into the fan to stop the blades once the icecube has melted. You may need some duct-tape to get this to work.<< I have the duct tape and it's not a joke. Doesn't seem to work as well on computers as it did on cars. Popsicle stick -- now that's funny. Actually my fan did stop the other day when it fell out of the computer. It sits on my video card blowing straight at the cpu and memory. No side on the computer. Makes it easy to access the jumper pins on the HDD's. Fan fell out while running and landed on some protuberant object and lost a blade. Was quite useless after that. Can't remember what made it fall. I must have been pulling on the wrong wire. Cooling issues are a real bottleneck for me. I'll be glad when everything is solid state and cool-running (not that they follow logically). This will be sometime in the next half century. w