I have a Dell desktop, now a fair number of years old. It also seems to take a long time to boot up. Could this be a Dell-specific issue?
Randall On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Fred Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > At 05:28 PM 8/21/2009, John Settle wrote: > >Changing that fan would be a cheap, easy fix! > > Lubricating it is even easier, but it requires extracting the box from its > place in the configuration, and opening it up. A non-trivial exercise. It > never occurred to me that the noisy fan would cause bad writes. I thought > hard drives could withstand a bit of vibration. Now I know better. Live > and learn. > > Fred Holmes > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
