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arib ([personal profile] arib) wrote2003-08-26 10:31 am

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Home computer is making funky noises again...

We had a brief blackout at around 4AM or so, and I was woken by the sound of my machine rebooting itself. I let it run through it's diagnostics, then shut it down. When I boot it up in the morning, it booted, and was working fine, but there's an awful motory noise coming from the tower. It doesn't sound like the hard drive, but I shut it down and I'll take a peek inside when I get home tonight. I think it may be a fan or something, but I'm not quite sure.

Any local geeks feel like taking a look at it sometime soon? I'll bribe...
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[personal profile] cellio 2003-08-26 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
For the future, you might want to invest in a UPS. That way your machine won't even notice short outages, and for longer ones, if you're home, you'll probably hear the "I'm running on batteries" beeping and be able to shut down gracefully.