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Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Morning.
It is sunny here, I think there might be a bit of thin cloud as it doesn't look too bright.
I'm about to go and make another
It is sunny here, I think there might be a bit of thin cloud as it doesn't look too bright.
I'm about to go and make another
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I think my trusty laptop is unwell. The fan isn't working and it's throwing up warning messages every time it reboots. I wonder how device-specific fans are because Dell say the fan is no longer available.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Good morning from a sunny and frost free Suffolk.
Coffee has been had and it looks like I'm going to make my target of being out of the house for 09:00. Just got to have a quick bowl of porridge for breakfast, make a flask of coffee and pack the snacks before I go and to and remember to get some fuel on the way.
Coffee has been had and it looks like I'm going to make my target of being out of the house for 09:00. Just got to have a quick bowl of porridge for breakfast, make a flask of coffee and pack the snacks before I go and to and remember to get some fuel on the way.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
That's a bu99er! It's not something that you come across every day. You need to contact someone who works on them who might have more knowledge of those parts. I assume that Dell would have bought them in so whether there is a similar fan out there which would fit but one which Dell do not use is the question.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
finished work at midnight and up at 7 am as we are off on a day out , coffee and sugar are a mainstay of the diet today
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Yes, I think I need to have a word with Revive My Device. They're good but they're shut over the weekend.
Remove it, clean the dust out of it and the slightest spray of WD-40 into it and see how it works.
Or find someone selling a scrap laptop of the same type on eBay.
A nice morning for my perambulation but it looks like it could rain later.
Waiting on my Saturday morning fry and wondering which plate it will be today.
We have a shouty, angry customer because he had to sit a few minutes before someone could come and take his order. What is the matter with these people? 😔
Waiting on my Saturday morning fry and wondering which plate it will be today.
We have a shouty, angry customer because he had to sit a few minutes before someone could come and take his order. What is the matter with these people? 😔
Could just be the fan is clogged up with dust.
Do not use normal WD40 - rots plastic. GT85 would be better or a specific plastic safe WD40
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I'm not at all confident about dealing with the innards of tech things. I have been known to open things up and then, in a panic, put everything back with nothing mended.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Much fun yesterday: Middle Manager turned up. He's a good manager but occasionally has daft ideas, an yesterday was one of those days.
We have some big shelves designed for pallets. I'm not sure why as we don't use them for pallets but bike parts. Middle Manager decides that we should take the ten or so boxed new bikes from the shelf made for them elsewhere in the building, and park them under lower shelf.
We point out that this will make the bike shelf too high to use comfortably.
Manager tells us to use a step.
Spend a morning raising the shelf and replacing bike parts on shelf. Now we have a shelf that is too high to reach.
Move bikes underneath. Shelf is 1m deep. Bike boxes are at least 1m 20 long. They are not permitted to stick out from under the shelves so we turn them parallel to the wall.
This way three bikes fit, the rest are left on the old shelves.
So ne we have bikes spread around the building, and an inaccesible shelf full of parts.
We are waiting to see how long it takes Area Manager to realise this was a bad idea.
We have some big shelves designed for pallets. I'm not sure why as we don't use them for pallets but bike parts. Middle Manager decides that we should take the ten or so boxed new bikes from the shelf made for them elsewhere in the building, and park them under lower shelf.
We point out that this will make the bike shelf too high to use comfortably.
Manager tells us to use a step.
Spend a morning raising the shelf and replacing bike parts on shelf. Now we have a shelf that is too high to reach.
Move bikes underneath. Shelf is 1m deep. Bike boxes are at least 1m 20 long. They are not permitted to stick out from under the shelves so we turn them parallel to the wall.
This way three bikes fit, the rest are left on the old shelves.
So ne we have bikes spread around the building, and an inaccesible shelf full of parts.
We are waiting to see how long it takes Area Manager to realise this was a bad idea.
Sunny and warmish. Washing out and the ebike made its 2025 debut at set of town centre bike stands.
Have to conclude M&S have also annoyingly installed blue lights over their bananas etc as what came out of the rucksack when I got home was far greener than what they looked like in store.
Also got the missing advantage points and 70p back on the cold compress from Boots. Definite need to use it still.
Have to conclude M&S have also annoyingly installed blue lights over their bananas etc as what came out of the rucksack when I got home was far greener than what they looked like in store.
Also got the missing advantage points and 70p back on the cold compress from Boots. Definite need to use it still.