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Aug. 5th, 2019 09:32 pmSo. My computer has been having an issue for the past few months where it won't let me boot up right away because it says there's an error with the CPU fan. I go into the BIOS, check the CPU temperature, check the fan speed, look at the rpms, there's nothing wrong, so I just load up the computer. Nothing bad's happened so far, so I generally assume it's a problem with the computer detecting the fan. But lately it's occasionally making me go through that whole process five or so times before it will let me boot up the desktop, and today when I was checking through the BIOS I noticed it had the fan spinning at 0rpm, which it never has before. I have a see-through side on my computer case, and I've looked in, but I genuinely can't tell if it's spinning or not. Or even if it's supposed to spin, or I got one of those liquid cooling ones. Can't do anything else with it without literally dismantling my computer, which I'm not prepared to do right now, and google tells me it could still be the computer failing to detect the fan rather than any sort of problem. So here I am. But I'm a little afraid my computer could suddenly fry my CPU with no warning. I have decided to back all my shit up again, and spent quite a while looking through every USB cable I had to figure out which one connected to the external hard drive, chose the wrong one, stared at My PC for ages trying to figure out if E was the external hard drive even though it wasn't showing up like it usually did (tip: it was not, and it was probably a mistake to try to copy my life's collection of fanfiction onto there), before I finally went back to my earlier thought of "maybe the external hard drive's USB cable is in the external hard drive's box?", opened the box and found it there. Human disaster? Maybe. Anyway, I'm formatting the drive now, so for a little while I'll have NO BACKUP AT ALL. Hopefully I will complete a new copy before my computer burns to a crisp.
Also feeling like I should take this opportunity to read ALL THE FIC IN THE WORLD. Or apply for jobs I won't be able to respond to any emails about if my computer burns to a crisp. I HATE COMPUTERS.
Also feeling like I should take this opportunity to read ALL THE FIC IN THE WORLD. Or apply for jobs I won't be able to respond to any emails about if my computer burns to a crisp. I HATE COMPUTERS.
