Oops. Fried a motherboard :-)

Magnus Eriksson magetoo at fastmail.fm
Wed Sep 22 23:58:04 PDT 2004


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Ok, here's a joke:  What happens when you stuff a Pentium 4 cube with
>     two hard drives and an Intel Pro/1000 (em0) ethernet card, with an
>     accidently disconnected main exhaust fan, and then run cpu-bound
>     programs?

>     Answer: One deep-fried ethernet card, and one semi-fried motherboard.

  Interesting. I'm running a similar experiment myself, except in my case
it's a graphics card fan that is about to break down.  Shall I report the
results to the list?  :-)


Magnus






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