It’s good to be wrong times to times. Especially this weekend. Juha and I had finally decided to figure out what was causing the loud noise coming from one of our computers. We soon understood it was the CPU fan and since we were going to town this day, we started to visit some onlinestores to see where we could find a cheap one today. Found a Zalman 7700B CPU fan for a small amount of money and after some nice time in town, we went home to give it a go.

At first glance, we thought we both lost our minds. We couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the old CPU fan. It was the default one that came with the CPU fan so it’s really nothing fancy. We losened the handles and tried to remove it, but it wouldn’t budge. This lead to some more force, since no other handles/levers were visible. All of a sudden it came loose, but to our suprise the CPU went with it. WITHOUT loosing it’s lever holding it to place. This is bad, REAL bad. Keeping our hopes up, we tried to split the two Onitems but they wouldn’t move. The only thing that came to our mind, was heating it up abit and hope for it to budge. Since neither me or Juha owns a haird (for obvious reasons), we went to Juhas job to use a heatgun (?).

once we arrived and made our preparations, we noticed some of the pins were bent. I had probablly dealt with it a bit hard on the way here. Anyway, we used the heatgun and tried to aim at the old fan metals. This got REAL hot and finally the CPU went loose. At this time, I ‘d given up all hopes of getting it to work. I was sure that when I’ve gotten it in place and put the power on, nothing would happened. I mean, it first removed by force in a unnatural way, had it’s pins bent and also heated to alot more than a normal CPU should live with. But against all this, I was wrong. The PC booted just fine and with the new CPU fan it was now cooler and alot more quite.

Once we were in town, we also had a little quality time together. Ate a nice chineselunch (bit to early, but it tasted great) and went to the cinema to see Star Wars Ep III.