[PLUG] Fedora or Red Hat

[Abraham Zwygart]

>On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 06:53, Mike De La Mater wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 02:26, Bill Spears wrote:
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>>>This may not be so theoretical. Hard drives making growling sounds
>>>doesn't mean they're hungry, right?  This is usually a bad thing, right.
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>>IMO (In My Observation) "growling" usually comes from a dying fan, while
>>"whining" comes from a failing hard drive. I've heard SCSI drives that
>>whine quite loudly for over a year before dying. 
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>>I'd check the fans before diving checking the drive. I just jam
>>something into standard PS and case fans to stop them. I LOVE it when
>>customers tell me that their growling noise just stopped after a while.
>>Most assume that it fixed its self. I REALLY would like responsible PC
>>builders to quit using sleeve bearing fans in all PCs.
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>And the grand prize goes to Mike for his prescient diagnosis of my
>problem. In mid browse we went to black.  I mean no witty error message
>or warning just machine down.  It is running right now but the power fan
>is _not_ turning.
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>I guess the solution is a new case, right?  
>
I have replace fans from 5 to 15 dollars.   A lot cheaper then a case.
Abraham Z.
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