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12/2/2005 5:05:12 PM EDT
The fan on my power supply recently quit blowing (it is still sucking though), and now the PSU is getting pretty hot.  My CPU temp and case temp is now a little hotter than normal.  Do you think it is harming my computer to keep running without PSU fan.  I plan on getting a new one, but in the meantime, what are your thoughts?
12/2/2005 10:27:49 PM EDT
[#1]
replace as soon as you can.

worse case, the psu overheats and has electrical fire in the box.. which would short out everything and fry anything it provides power to.  thats worse case.

edit: even worse! it would burn your house down and kill your children with toxic smoke and give your wife 3rd degree burns all over her body when she tries in-vain to save the kiddies and set off all your ammo, your cars would exploded and all your dreams would wash away in the water of the fireman's hose!


Thou probably what will happen, if anything, is the system would lose stability and randomly crash.
12/2/2005 10:43:43 PM EDT
[#2]
I actually knocked the hell out of it, and for the time being, it works.  I still plan on getting a new one, or fixing this one.  It is only a year old.  I am not sure if I can change out that fan though because it is wired straight into the PSU (I think).
12/2/2005 10:50:13 PM EDT
[#3]
take the case off and set the tower in the window and open it just a little so the winter breeze hits it
you'll be good to go untill June
12/3/2005 8:28:32 AM EDT
[#4]
You can cut the wires for the fan and install a new one by splicing the new one in.
12/3/2005 12:13:19 PM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
You can cut the wires for the fan and install a new one by splicing the new one in.



This is the easiest with having to buy a new power supply.