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Bald Bloke Started conversation Aug 22, 2014
You know how the old blues number goes...
Woke up this morning,
Turned on the PC
Nothing happened
Remembered I had done some updates last night, out with the boot stick and undo them.
No dice one of the disks has decided to fall off it's perch.
this is a bad news / good news situation, bad it happened, good the drive concerned is only the system drive all my data is on another disk.
Rummage in bits box
Suitable disk found, installed, formatted... disk check
Bugger errors on drive. 
Worse, whats that smell, warm dust, and PC shuts down 
Having taken the covers off to change the drive the fans are no longer forcing air over the cpu so it has decided to go on strike.
I cleaned the fan and cleaned out the parts of the heat sink which are accessible only a couple of months ago.
Looks into heat sink, there's a load of dust at the bottom and fan not spinning, not good at all.
Off to Maplins
Heat sink is not in stock, but they have got a replacement fan of the right size and mountings.
So new fan
A new can of expensive air.
eyewateringly expensive Thermal grease, (they must be trying to be reassuringly expensive) £10 for 3g 
And they have a special offer on solid sate drives.
Right that's emptied the wallet.
So this afternoon has been spent stripping the desktop machine.
Removing the heat sink
attacking it with a toothbrush, the vacuum cleaner and a tin of air to get the grot out.
Then fitting it with a replacement fan, only to find that has a different plug to my motherboard, soldering iron time again...
Put it back together and fitted new SSD.
Powered on and it hasn't let the magic smoke out
Processor temp looks OK
The good news, that's the fastest I've ever done a full Linux re-install (under 15 minutes with a full set of KDE and applications)
Now do I start doing what I was going to do today or it's Poets?
Well I know which one I'm doing 
Poets wins every time even though I'm not working.
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Sep 1, 2014
Wish I were handy with 'transistors. 
But I can de-fuzz the inside of one with a box of q-tips and some alcohol.
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