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Today has largely been spent restoring the state of the house after yesterday's searching.

Also, I discovered why my windoze box misbehaved - one of the fans is buggered:

Fan

I think that's the Northbridge, and that getting replacement fans with the right connector will be almost impossible (oh, and that the motherboard may be fried anyway).

So, not a great day, really. Still, I had a pleasant evening with

atreic, and my parents are visiting tomorrow (after the

tienelle-

chess wedding) to buy me lunch, and go punting.

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getting replacement fans with the right connector will be almost impossible

It should be possible if you can get a fan that will physically fit to change the connectors over, or change the wires and connectors over; at bit of creative poking and prodding should do the connector, a bit of creative soldering should do the whole thing. Worth trying, as I'm sure you don't want to rebuild a Windoze box if you don't have to.

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Yeah, I did the "botch fan wires together and use a bit of insulating tape" thing before inside a power-supply, but I'm never entirely convinced it's a good idea, and my soldering isn't up to wires that small :)

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[I waited for that image to load over my slow dialup expecting to see an exciting crater in the motherboard or something. Boring]

Looks like a standard two-pin 0.1" pitch connector to me. Even if it doesn't have the right connector you can still probably push it onto the motherboard - if it has a third wire that isn't in the middle just ignore that (making sure red/black are the right way round so the fan blows the right way!).

Those aren't small wires: 100 pins 0.5mm between each one is small :-) Wave it in my direction if you want anything soldering (next week though).

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