Jobs I Hate
Listening to: Flat Fish, Shallow Water - Banshee Reel
Of all the geeky jobs I hate changing CPU fans sits in the top 5. I find the whole experience utterly stressful… I am convinced I am going to break something. So you can imagine that I greeted the arrival of my new fan with mixed emotions.
When we started Provoke I was really the only person who knew his way around the guts of a PC. This meant that I got the role of PC builder in the company. The task was awful… when you’re living hand to mouth killing a computer actually meant something (opposed to later in the life of the company when I killed a Dell on the phone to a support rep - but that’s another story). I swore and cursed so much that I got the nick name ‘Tourettes’.
My alter ego nearly made bit of a come back this arvo. I am in the middle of writing a piece of software. Knowing that changing crucial pieces of hardware is a very, very dumb thing to do (but a promise is a promise) I immediately whipped the cover off “my” PC and went to town on the CPU. Bare foot (*) and cursing I replaced the existing beast of a fan with the svelte number that I purchased earlier in the week. Five minutes of cold sweating later everything looked set. Time to boot:
- Mother board beep (check)
- Post (check…Phew! So I didn’t take one of the surface mounted resistors off when the screw driver slipped)
- Hard Drive (check)
- OS Booting (waiting, sweating, thinking of excuses as to why my delivery won’t be met)
- Reboot… no luck
Hmmm may be it will work if I close the case up again …. Hey look! It does. Go figure.
God, I hate changing CPU fans.
* I wear ugg boots ’round the house - not the top combo around electronics.
