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pkd_lives:
Well I'm feeling pissed.

I had a lovely little AMD K6 III processor. It ran well, was reliable and did the job I wanted. Unfortunately the cooling fan broke, I didn't notice for a few minutes, then I smelt burning - well I was cooking the dinner like, and I walked into my room to  check the smell, which was around for half an hour. Then I happened to glance at my PC, and there were flames in there.

Now I think the flames were just the dust catching fire, but now my computer will not finish a boot. I think that in order for it to work I'll have to diagnose the working temperature range and then fit a cooling control with a high accuracy sensor in order to keep the sensor in range, but even if I do that there is no guarantee the thing works properly anymore. And I suspect the fail to act properly is due to internal heat, and I can't really control that very well. So it looks like bye bye to my favourite processor.

So now I need a new PC. I want a laptop, because I need the space. Well what I really want to do is get a dogs bollocks Mac Laptop, and a comp that I can use for Linux, BSD, etc. Well time to save.

RIP AMD K6 III.

voidmain:
Wow, that's scary. Makes one wonder about the possibilities of that happening in the middle of the night combined with the cramped spaces people stuff machines into. Might be a good idea to vacuum out the dust bunnies periodically.

I'm sure the chances of a dust bunny fire inside your case growing into something larger are small as it would likely be a very short flash fire. Anybody heard of a home computer being the cause of a house fire? I don't recall ever hearing of such a thing...

Master of Reality:
i would think the metal case would suffacate it from growing very large and stop it from productively spreading.

pkd_lives:
Well heres the thing. My old M/B broke. My new one didn't fit the case. So It has been laid down on top of a cardboard box with the cards stuck in. And the wires run to the HDD and CDROMs. So one side of the case is not used (so it's basically open space, which is probably why the fire went out quickly, causing no real damage to the peripherals. It's been this way for 2 years now, and works just fine.

voidmain:
I certainly wouldn't run it 24 hours with a cardboard box shoved under the motherboard. Too much fuel for my liking...

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