Broken fan URGENT help needed!

[Dee]

Hi...can any one advise re a broken fan....on an old pentium 3? Making an 'orrible cranky noise' It belongs to my sister - in France and she desperately needs to nurse it along until the end of the week. Are there other ways of cooling it?

[Empty_5oul]

thats the CPU fan?

if she has any other fans for a more recent processor that would work fine (providing they fit!)

[NeoGen]

Maybe opening the case and pointing at it one of those large domestic fans (can't remember a name for it) that people have at home to cool in the summer? :P

A temporary fix until it went to repair... :roll:

[Dee]

Thanks guys...the side off and room fan on sounds OK...somehow, I think she'll need a new one soon! C'est la vie? :roll:

[PcManiac]

Maybe opening the case and pointing at it one of those large domestic fans (can't remember a name for it) that people have at home to cool in the summer? :P

A temporary fix until it went to repair... :roll:

I call em BOX fans lol, I have no clue as to what they are supposed to be called... lol

As for you Dee, any local computer store should have the little fans that the P-III's used. maybe only a couple $'s here or whever.

good luck with that

[Dee]

Me? I can practically build a pc! :roll: OK slight exaggeration...I've installed disk drives/sound cards/network cards etc! :oops: My sister doesn't have the same blind faith as I! ;) Also, she is actually in the French Alps...an hours drive from the nearest PC shop!