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To: PMS Witch who wrote (4542)	7/18/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 110642

>>remain in memory<< Ahh, ok, that must be the reason for the fan -- the memory refresh is still happening. Very interesting... But then why does the cpu fan go off? >>If you touch your chips, be sure to avoid giving them static electricity<< You know, I'm always screwing around inside my box and have never had a spark. Not that it won't happen. Maybe because I don't have carpets (because I do have dogs)? The only way I've found of destroying things is, well, a few ways: plug or unplug things while the computer is on drop, throw, hit or use stuff to hit with use faultily made electric connectors -- Some case fans I bought had these mis-made connectors that would go on but wouldn't come off. I connected one to my HDD and had to pull it off with pliers and it pulled the pins out of the HDD with it. Had the HDD repaired and then did the same thing again. Very irritating. w