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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes, very hot, a bit tired of the heat already. My upstairs AC unit is on the fritz, has a leaky coil, they want $1200 to fix the thing. This is where the computers are, and the AC is blowing barely cool air since it is low on freon. The AC is pretty much running 24x7 until I get it fixed. Summers here are so much fun, not!  Good Morning Team TGIF The weather here is HOT and DRY. Thinking of moving to the middle of the Sahara for some cooler weather.  Coils, condensers, compressors - the three $$$$ of air conditioning! And then there's the electric bill! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Good morning all. As for the status of computer systems, my son uses a duo which he reports gets noisy, like a fan or a HDD problem, but we haven't narrowed it down. I think we are going to wait until the failure is more solid. That duo is an HP and I asked when was the last time he took the side off to see if dust/dirt might be the problem. I received a new palm rest (over a hundred bucks) but haven't done anything yet as I am waiting for a new fan to arrive. I am thinking I will take it to a local computer store to be installed with some warranty. The two quads are running fine. The used Lenovo I bought had to have the HDD replaced some time ago at which time I had Windows 7 installed. I clean the outside of the quads where the air intake is about once a month. The air is pretty dusty around Salinas, California. Dave, with the Lenovo laptop, you'll be replacing the fan at least once a year if you don't keep the dust down inside. Mine has the fan exhaust in the back left corner (left side and back left both) and the fan turns clockwise (looking down from the top) so I've found that a good blast of air into the fan exhaust on the left side will blow a small cloud out the back side (while the fan's running). It's a crude interim measure but an option. You still need to open it up at least once a year for a good cleaning. Doing that is just a matter of removing 4-5 screws in the back and well worth learning how to do. You'll find replacing the palm rest easy but I can understand paying someone to replace the fan. You'll have to open it up like this to add/replace any of the memory too. Why they moved the memory from it's own little door on the back I'll never understand. |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Good Sunday Morning MOT Thinking of our old friend Dave Bell this morning. Justin, NiceMedTx....where are you guys? |
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Hi Keith, I took the laptop to a place called AB Computer as they had experience with the ThinkPad. I also took the palm rest and fan, and they replaced the parts for me and cleaned the inside for $140, the minimum charge for one hour. If I had taken it to the Nerd Herd at Best Buy, they would have sent it to Chino, CA, as they did not have authority to fix it in Salinas with their warranty. The amount of dust on the inside was not a lot according to the guy at AB. And the computer is much more usable after fixing the palm rest and replacing the fan.
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/10 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== xroule reached 15,500,000 points  dkt reached 5,500,000 points YellowAV reached 75,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= xroule reached 39 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== dkt reached 19,000 results New members report ================== No new members found.  Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 06/08/2011 4,091 Points: 06/22/2011 1,053,686 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/10 - Active Members
----------------------------------------Active team members report ==========================
Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 221,009 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 161,320 points 03: GeraldRube - 147,281 points 04: Coingames - 64,571 points 05: David Autumns - 39,577 points 06: xroule - 37,708 points 07: dkt - 33,935 points 08: NiceMedTexMD - 33,069 points 09: parmesian - 30,014 points 10: brown chris - 23,921 points 11: finman - 22,349 points 12: Blueprint - 19,251 points 13: Vuj - 18,831 points 14: Barramundi - 17,843 points 15: YellowAV - 15,264 points 16: Daeloan - 12,992 points 17: keithhenry - 12,552 points 18: darth_vader - 11,980 points 19: lawrencehardin - 8,775 points 20: PohSoon - 4,757 points Total points returned today: 966,954 Active members returning points today: 38 Average points per member active today: 25,446.1579 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.............................CONGRATULATIONS xroule ON REACHING 15,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!............................. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.................................CONGRATULATIONS dkt ON REACHING 5,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!................................. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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...............................CONGRATULATIONS YellowAV ON REACHING 75,000 MOT POINTS !!!............................... |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Good Monday Morning Everyone Congratulations to xroule, dkt and YellowAV! Another hot week here in the DFW-Texas-USA area.  Looking at what the AB computer store charged for working on that thinkpad, I guess I need to increase my rates. |
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