My little big old new server went down over the weekend. Me and my wife were in the guest bedroom where the server lives under the bed, ready to scare guests. She was knitting and I was on my laptop. Then a terrible noise came from under the bed. The noise of high pitch squeaking that scared our dog.
I immediately knew it was a fan from within the machine. Opening it up I found the heat sink fan over the CPU struggling to turn. So I turned the machine off.
In a moment of inspiration I thought about using my wife's spinning wheel oil on the fan. After unscrewing the fan and cleaning off the thick layer of dust I simply had to pull back a sticker on the back of the fan to reveal the motor. A simple cleaning and oiling using the spinning wheel oil was all that was needed to get the fan purring like a Mercedes Benz.
I don't think it will bother my mother in law now who is coming to stay over the weekend. She will refuse to sleep on our bed so inevitably will end up sleeping in the guest bedroom, on top the server. All I have to do now is setup festival text to speech for some weekend prankster fun ;-)
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