20030616: did something change at ULM? (cont.)

Adam,

>Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:26:29 -0500
>From: address@hidden
>Organization: University of Louisiana at Monroe
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20030616: did something change at ULM? (cont.) 

The above message contained the following:

> Well, that might be one problem.  I actually took the computer apart,
> not off (it is a tower)and looked.  Low and behold, there was a fan
> not spinning.

That's probably bad.

> The fan however is fine, the power connector on the
> motherboard is dead.  I guess that is why the BIOS alarm for fan RPMs
> did not go off, the actual mobo connection is broken.  Sigh!!!  I will
> have it fixed tomorrow.
>
> Note:  There are actually no fans on the CPU's themsevels, just one
> big fan and a plastic cover to shunt the air through them.  The fan
> that was not working was the air intake fan on the front.  This would
> explain why tornado locked up this weekend(it was still in the server
> cabinite)
>
> however....
>
> If it still shuts down now, it shouldn't be because of over
> heating(the case is wide open and away from the other computers.  I
> do not know how low the bios settings are but sometime late tonight i
> will restart the computer and check these settings in the BIOS.  Not
> more then 5 min of downtime should be expected.

If you have a table fan, you might direct the air from it into the open
system box.

> Thanks
> 
> Adam Taylor 

Regards,
Steve Emmerson