On 10/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay R. Ashworth</b> <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>You're a lucky guy. I've had 3 or 4 clients lose CPUs due to<br>fan-failure burndown.</blockquote><div><br>I'm pretty sure that he was referring to a chipset fan, not a CPU fan. OTOH, here's an interesting article talking about what happens when the CPU fan fails on a modern CPU:
<br><br><a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/27/what_if_your_cpu_cooler_fails/">http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/27/what_if_your_cpu_cooler_fails/</a> <br></div><br>Carl Fongheiser<br></div><br>