Pit Stop is coming home SOON!

yugogypsy · Post by **yugogypsy** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:46 am

I call those pics, "Pit Stop's Nose Job"

I just got up and have a few things to do and then will head outside with my camera.

HUGS Everyone
Lois

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:51 am

Lois, are you back? Is your computer working?

yugogypsy · Post by **yugogypsy** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:56 am

No Rudy, still up & down

Dualfuel--that is what the dumbkoff did who put this pvc together, I'm not repeating his nonsense.

I'd better get off before this thing quits again

Lois

tamangel · Post by **tamangel** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:34 am

Rudy wrote:From Lois.
Someone on the forum asked what make of bus Pit Stop is, she's a 1964 Ford, sporting 2 escape doors, one on the drivers side and one at the rear. Look on page 22 of Rolling Homes, she used to look like that, but with the escape door half-way down the drivers side, that model Bluebird body had an option of which side the centre escape door could be & you can see it on Pit Stop.

page 22 from Rolling Homes..

Mike

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:35 am

Mike, thanks for posting the pic. I was thinking of doing the same thing. That's quite a contraption on the roof.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:03 am

Email from Lois.

Hi Rudy, When I turn my computer on I have about 20 min before it clicks off, so I forward important email to my phone, drop in at Sharkey's & then shut it off again.
But I'm getting lots of knitting done! Boring as that is, when I finish this scarf I have a blanket to finish knitting, a blanket to finish crocheting + a quilt to start.
Trying to keep busy & positive.
Hugs, Lois

tamangel · Post by **tamangel** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:10 am

sounds like a cooling problem of some sort.. your internal fan working OK?

Mike

yugogypsy · Post by **yugogypsy** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:22 am

I's sitting here next to it it with the case off and fans are running just fine, but thanks for the suggeststio.

Lois (popping in-popping out)

tamangel · Post by **tamangel** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:25 pm

add another fan..like a regular house fan..sounds like the internal fan can't handle the heat.. is the power supply hot to the touch..?

Mike

rlaggren · Post by **rlaggren** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:36 pm

Lois

If your PC is NOT a Dell, you can keep an eye out for old PC's sitting at the curb (or elsewhere) going to recycle. Grab one or two, plug in your keyboard and monitor and see what happens - mostly you want to see if the thing will boot and stay lit for a few hours. Even if it has nothing on it except the motherboard you can start it and go to the "bios" (usually hit the Delete key while booting) and let it sit there for a few hours. If it's still alive after that the power supply is probably working OK and you can take it out and install it in your own machine. Or you can just try switching the power supply right off if it doesn't have video available and see what happens.

I'm assuming here that _all_ the fans in your PC are running...? In particular the one(s) mounted on the mother board above the CPU chip. You might try going into the Bios on your own machine (probably hit Delete while booting) and go to "PC Health" or some menu item like that and look at the temperatures. The CPU chip s/b running at a temperature less than 55 C, IIRC. Watch it for a while and if it just keeps going up up and away, that's probably at least part of your problem. Look more closely at the fan on the chip and make sure it's really running.

Luck. Rufus

yugogypsy · Post by **yugogypsy** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:54 am

PC is Asus P4 Terminator, very proprietory, hard to get parts for. Power supply is very warm, not hot, to touch, has case fan as no fan on power supply, is running better with case off, CPU fan also okay, going to leave it and just use as necessary until I can afford another computer. Checked prices today.

Lois
PS, also had to blow a lot of dust out of it, that seems to have helped too

rlaggren · Post by **rlaggren** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:07 pm

Well, if you're planning on changing machines, you may want to start backing stuff up, at least the stuff you hope to see again. That can include things that don't have an obvious home like your bookmarks - you have to "export" them to somewhere you can find them before you can make a backup.

I mention this because people use their PC's so often they just take it for granted and then don't remember all the little things they stashed on disk - and so when the time comes, they don't remember a lot of things before their old machine does its final abort.

Rufus

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:37 pm

Maybe something like this will keep your computer working.

ezrablu · Post by **ezrablu** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:42 pm

hahaha!

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:21 am

Lois is coming back soon.

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