"Get your coat," says Keith, " Let's go down to Sam's and get you a new surge protector."
Sure, maybe that will do the trick. The fan certainly didn't change anything. Well, maybe it changed a little. The computer worked for a little over 24 hours before it blipped on me this time.
Keith comes home from work with a new computer fan.
The computer case sets to the side and the guts are showing from the night before. After a little fiddling with the plug, we get the fan going. Snap the cage onto the front of the tower, and we're in business.
Keith turns off the computer and we need a couple of tries to line up all the notches on the outside case.
The fan whirrs. All is right with the world.
Keith leaves a message for Jeff, and when he calls back, Keith hands the phone to me.
"It's not crashing," I tell him, "it's more like a light switch being flicked off."
"Can I come over right now," Jeff asks.
"Sure," I say, and then I hop up to straighten up around the computer before he gets here.
When Jeff arrives, I offer him a mixed drink, "All I've got is diet Sprite and a bottle of Snapple rain, agave cactus fruit drink. I can mix 'em half and half."
Jeff opens up his tool kit, takes off the cover of the tower, and checks all the connections.
"Looks good." He examines the whole inside with a flat flashlight. "Nothing wrong in here."
He turns on the computer and examines the bios. "It's nice that you can look through these with a mouse."
Other than dust inside the case, everything is working fine.
"All I can figure is that it's getting too hot. The power supply fan is working and the cpu fan is working, but there isn't any air going over the harddrive. We can mount another fan here." He points to a small plastic square cage apparatus inside the case.
About that time Keith comes into the room, "How we doin'?"
"Another fan might fix the problem. I can't find anything else wrong. We could go to Fred Meyer and pick one up."
Off they go, the two of them to Fred Meyer, and I go to bed.
