Well I forgot to do my October Annual Update.
.
So it's February computer update time! My computer is still running well. Except for one big thing that happened about 2 months ago. I run a Spybot Search and Destroy scan at least twice a week to make sure I rid my machine of all possible harmful shit.
The big thing had to do with the cooling fan. One day I tried to turn on the computer and it gave me a message saying the fan wouldn't spin. It let me boot up anyway and when I researched it I found out that even without a fan it has a fail-safe where it will shut itself down before any damage if the processor gets too hot. I was freaked out. I looked into fixing it and it's about $100 to have someone do it. At this point, 3 years in, $100 repair charge isn't really worth it. So a day or so later I had the idea to blow into the exhaust vents. One good blow did the job (as it does for all things in life) and I guess it blew loose some dust or whatever and now the fan has been working fine for the last 6 weeks!
Beside that issue, my $420 computer that is now 3+ years old, is running fine. I keep it on almost 12 hours daily and DL a ton of media and it's great! At this point I feel I got my monies worth. All the extra time it gives me now is great! Hopefully it will make it another year...we'll see. And I haul this thing around a lot. It goes from my place to my dad's place in my backpack, sitting in the car for 8 hours while I'm at work, multiple times per week.
I am very happy with my base-model, Best Buy, off-the-shelf, HP PC. See you for another update next year...or in October if I remember this time around.
Hey Hectic, hey Bylons, how are your computers holding up after 3 years of use?
