akaDisneyDreamer
01-25-2011, 05:38 PM
I think this is kind of an interesting story ...
My computer fan was very noisy ... I'd use canned air and blow it out and it would still continue to make lots of grumbly noises. One day a couple of weeks ago I decided to just spray the heck out of it and then I turned it on and it was quiet. Silent actually. Everything seemed fine though at first, then about 10 minutes later it just shut itself off. :confused: I turned it back on, same routine, silence, shut off again. Daily I would go through the routine, hoping it would just stay on and be okay, but finally I had come to accept that my computer fan was probably dead and that I was going to have to get a new computer since my warranty had run out. :(
Then one evening, I watched Finding Nemo. I love that movie. :nemo:
The next day, a scene in that movie found it's way back into my mind and I wondered ... it was the part where Nemo is in the aquarium and he gets in the filter and they get a rock in there to stop the fan ... I wondered if, when I previously used the canned air, that maybe it blew a clump of dust in a place where it stopped the fan from working? So I took the canned air and blew it in there again and turned on the computer and suddenly I heard the whirring of the fan! My computer is now working again, thanks to Nemo!
I know this is a little lengthy, but I just thought it was awesome that Nemo made me think about that and saved me from buying a new computer! :cloud9:
My computer fan was very noisy ... I'd use canned air and blow it out and it would still continue to make lots of grumbly noises. One day a couple of weeks ago I decided to just spray the heck out of it and then I turned it on and it was quiet. Silent actually. Everything seemed fine though at first, then about 10 minutes later it just shut itself off. :confused: I turned it back on, same routine, silence, shut off again. Daily I would go through the routine, hoping it would just stay on and be okay, but finally I had come to accept that my computer fan was probably dead and that I was going to have to get a new computer since my warranty had run out. :(
Then one evening, I watched Finding Nemo. I love that movie. :nemo:
The next day, a scene in that movie found it's way back into my mind and I wondered ... it was the part where Nemo is in the aquarium and he gets in the filter and they get a rock in there to stop the fan ... I wondered if, when I previously used the canned air, that maybe it blew a clump of dust in a place where it stopped the fan from working? So I took the canned air and blew it in there again and turned on the computer and suddenly I heard the whirring of the fan! My computer is now working again, thanks to Nemo!
I know this is a little lengthy, but I just thought it was awesome that Nemo made me think about that and saved me from buying a new computer! :cloud9: