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Hi,
I would first just like to say that I own a p2 233 mhz machine, with ~298 ram or about with a fifty gig hd and a ten. (ghetto, I know)
I have recently been using it as a media center on which to run my music and generally use that spare hd space for files that weren't important to me but couldn't stay on my main disc.
A few days ago, while ripping audio tracks off a cd, I noticed that the computer was getting EXTREMELY hot. I opened it up, and discovered that the fan was no longer running
Not wanting to shut down the machine in the middle of ripping the tracks, I opened the side of the case in order to let the heat out. While the case was open, I saw some kind of electricity or something spring out of one of the molex connectors, and at about this time the machine shut down.
At first I thought I had killed it, but when I tried to boot it up later it turned on. I think the problem was it overheated and therefore shut itself down hastily (which kind of explains the spark from the molex).
Finally, while rebooting , I realized that the machine had dropped one of the Hardrives. The ten gig, thank goodness.
My question is, do you think any of the other hardware in the machine might have been affected? would it be dangerous using this machine in the future? I don't want to lose a machine in my house... because this one was very important to me.
I would first just like to say that I own a p2 233 mhz machine, with ~298 ram or about with a fifty gig hd and a ten. (ghetto, I know)
I have recently been using it as a media center on which to run my music and generally use that spare hd space for files that weren't important to me but couldn't stay on my main disc.
A few days ago, while ripping audio tracks off a cd, I noticed that the computer was getting EXTREMELY hot. I opened it up, and discovered that the fan was no longer running
Not wanting to shut down the machine in the middle of ripping the tracks, I opened the side of the case in order to let the heat out. While the case was open, I saw some kind of electricity or something spring out of one of the molex connectors, and at about this time the machine shut down.
At first I thought I had killed it, but when I tried to boot it up later it turned on. I think the problem was it overheated and therefore shut itself down hastily (which kind of explains the spark from the molex).
Finally, while rebooting , I realized that the machine had dropped one of the Hardrives. The ten gig, thank goodness
. My question is, do you think any of the other hardware in the machine might have been affected? would it be dangerous using this machine in the future? I don't want to lose a machine in my house... because this one was very important to me.
