Odd thing happened to me last night.
The processor’s fan in our PC is less than top shelf quality. Every so often, it gets loud. No, let me rephrase that.
It gets LOUD.
So, every so often, I have to open up the tower, pull the fan out, oil up the bearing, and smack the whole thing back together. Basic maintenance, because I’m too lazy/forgetful/scatterbrained/medicated to ever remember that I need to pick up a new fan when I’m out and about.
I go through this every other week, or so. It’s so routine to me that I don’t really think about what I’m doing. Maybe it’s my personal form of zen. Whatever.
Fan was drowning out the CD I was listening to last night as I browsed these very boards. I got sick of listening to it, shut down the system, did my little ritual, but…
For the very second time ever* I decided to power up the system with the tower still open, to make sure I’d done all this properly. And, of course, the fan didn’t make a single revolution. Not a whisp of air was disturbed in any form by my dinky little poor-man’s heat sink. So I quick stabbed the power off, before the BIOS could get around to looking for a HD/OS. Re-checked my work, and discovered, to my mild astonishment, that I’d plugged the fan’s power cord in upside down. A quick fiddle with plug and socket, et voila, all better. Closed up the case, went on with my evening’s reading.
So why the hell did I doublecheck myself? Was it a subconcious QA guy lurking in the back of my skull who noticed something I hadn’t? Dunno. But it was passing strange, even if only mildly so.
So, with that, I ask, anyone else? Some niggling little voice ever cause you to do something outside your normal routine, either to your gain, or at the least, in avoidance of some “bad thing” that could’ve happened, but you avoided?
[sub]* I doublechecked m’self the very first time I did this, on a completely different PC, which wasn’t even mine. And was always confident enough after that that I did it right every time; since I’ve never been faced with a self-rebooting PC, I’m thinking I got it right every other time.[/sub]