My computer’s gonna blow!
One of my harddrives stopped working couple of days ago. It was 60GB IBM drive that I got as replacement for one of two deathstars that I had. However, unlike the other ones, there was no click on death, or rattling noise, or anything like that.
So, I opened up my computer, plugged and unplugged some stuff, and voila! It started working again. However, while I was doing that I saw some disturbing sights - bunch of the capacitors on the motherboards have blown up and is leaking fluids. Well, computer does work so I guess that’s good enough for now but I’m thinking that the end might not be very far. There’s so much dust that I’m surprised the CPU hasn’t given up yet (currently running at 72 degrees celsius). Bah, if it dies, I’ll see if I can fix it by replacing the capacitors… or something. 
Dell sells pretty nice computers for well under $1000 including monitor. Computer prices have dropped so much that at this point, it’s not an investment you make but something you buy to use for couple of years and throw away… I know there’s already 6 computers in my house, but the new computers look so… shiny. Bah, I’ll figure something out when it dies. That reminds me, I should do a backup soon…
Trinh Said,
July 11, 2003 @ 1:15 am
Wow, that is nuts!!
Is your computer dying?
Daniel Said,
July 12, 2003 @ 4:42 am
Computer isn’t dying… but it’s starting to get hard to cold-restart the computer… I need to precharge the capacitors before it actually turns on, so it’s turning out to be rather tricky operation to actually turn this thing on.