Problem loading Ubuntu into used laptop

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[hijack] wrt processor heat... recently solved a mystery. sitting in the office alone late one night and I hear music. computer-y music. wait, I know that tune...de de de de dah de de de dah de de de dum, lalalala... .etc. guessed at the title--bingo. Fur Elise. Where is it coming from? I looked all around, nuttin. Fast forward a week. Happens again. I jump up and track it down to the server room. From the voicemail server. From the pc speaker. WTF?!?!? Then it quits. Great. Maximum thoroughness for updates, anti virus, anti crapware, etc, etc. Nuttin.

then I googled around again and came upon this gem:

STR Fact File: Should I upgrade to Vista now? Yes, definitely. Vista includes an all-new sercurity system called TCP/IP which will no doubt stump foreign hackers for years. A client of mine had a Linux computer which had a virus called “Fur Elise” which caused the computer to play random melodies through it’s speaker. I told him that if he upgraded to Vista the virus would be gone. Unfortunately he failed to heed my advice, and days later the PC’s cheap foreign-made CPU had completely burned out.

Oooooh. I laughed til I cried. You all must read it. It really belongs in the WFT thread, but I had to continue my search.

Eventually, I discovered that the motherboard manufacturer had put in this music as an alarm for some impending faults; bad powersupply line, badly seated component, cpu fan not working/too hot. bingo. I opened the case and the little 50mm fan's thread had completely spun out and the Fates cut it loose. I don't know if it's spirit went to heaven or hell, but the body is in the trash right now. It took a little doing (two stores) but I did locate a replacement fan and installed it without even needing to shut down the system. yay me!

No more music, voicemail remains in the land of the living, actually solved a mystery (a rare treat) and I got a big laugh from ShelleyTheRepublican. It was a good day.

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