Oops!

[mdlbear]

Remember my clever hack with the fan and the gaffer's tape, a couple of posts downwhen from here? Just to refresh your memory, I'd written:

It's a good thing the fan worked out -- the alternative would have been deciding whether to spend $30 for a new fan and heatsink, or about three times that for a new CPU and motherboard. Which is a purchase I really don't need to be making right now.

As it turns out, gaffer's tape doesn't hold when it gets warm. There was a distinct smell of burnt plastic when I went to see why I couldn't ssh to the box...

It boots, with the old fan and a 20-minute or so cooldown. But still...