Internal Fan
I remember once when I was younger, I had a strange dream, in this dream I entered my room, and tried to switch on the light, but that did not work. (Have any of you tried switching on a light in a dream, for some bizare reason, this never works!) but anyway, after that I walked over to my computer, which was at that time an old IBM Model 30/286, I switched it on, and a message appeared on the screen saying "Internal fan not found" Most B3ta members know that such messages are not produced by computers, even todays machines just beep if there is a problem. I woke up and though "what a strange dream" and thought nothing of it until few months later when I finally upgraded to a new computer (this time a 486!) and sold my 286 to a friend, about six months later I got a phone call from him, he told me that he had to send the machine away for repair (this was before we learned to repair our machines ourselves) and it turned out that the internal fan had indeed stopped working. I then remembered the dream. I guess this could have been just a coincidence, but it did not seem that way at the time.
( Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Thu 18 Nov 2004, 21:44, Reply)