[GH85Carrera]

Weeee That was fun!

One of the several computers that we have around here is from 2004. It is just like the one I am typing this on. It is a old Dell 8400 series computer that we bought new. We liked it so much we bought 4 of them. One of them started making loud fan noises. Dang POS fan can't run 24-7 365 for more than 13 years without making noise.

Anyway I had to silence it as it was too annoying and needed to be fixed before it locked up and overheated the computer. So open it up and yank out the power supply, open up the power supply and get the fan disconnected. Of course the connection is soldered onto the board inside the PS.

Oh Joy. I dug out the soldering iron and I am pretty sure whoever used it last was doing wood burning decorations or maybe plastic burning. It was so covered in black crap I could not get the solder to even melt. I had to spend time to clean the tip enough to tin the tip with solder before I could do and soldering. Finally get it out and the other fan we had was worse than the one I just took out.

At Porsche Parade in the goodie store they have the Brad Penn display and they give out samples of high grade oil for sewing machines and fans. I had to get the cap off the fan and I oiled it and it works great now. I put today's date on the power supply so the next time I have to get into it I will know how long the oil lasted.

When I went to fire up the system the BIOS said the CMOS battery was low power so I "got" to replace that and go through the BIOS settings and change the date from July 2004 to March 1st, 2017 and disable the floppy drive and set up the raid.