this computer is really ticking me off

[jessica31876]

So I have been getting this message that my system fan has failed. I take the cover off and all the fans are spinning. I shut down and check again still spinning. So I take it in to a shop and they tell me the fan is not spinning and needs to be replaced and it will be 45 dollars unless the fan is very expensive then it would be more then 45. One guy tells my husband over the phone he gets 95 dollars an hour and the fan is about 80 dollars (umm yea I found it online for less then 10) and it will be about 2-3 hours labor. Well I take the fan out to take it to another place to have them check it and decide to check it one more time and sure enough it is defenitely spinning. I cleaned the insides out really good and got all the dust out and then put it all together again and turn it on. I get the warning yet again even though I am watching the fan spin. So I shutdown one more time and turn it back on and this time no warning. My husband calls one more place and the guy is really nice and tells us that if the fan is spinning it is not the issue. Of course what he said he believes would be the issue is alot worse I think. He said it is most likely in the motherboard somewhere. Not good :thumbdown: So hopefully its all good now. I was about to lose my mind using my daughters teeny tiny netbook!! LOL

 

[breakingbrie]

Ugh, hope it isn't the motherboard! Computer problems suck! My average used to be that I'd go through a computer a year(just random miscellaneous but major problems), but hopefully that's all changed with the brand new one I just got.

 

[jessica31876]

I have my first computer in my kids room I bought it in March 2001 LOL. It is also a Hewlett Packard. My sister was buying a new computer every year or so too. Alot of people have told me the same thing. Im not sure if my old one is a fluke or not but I figured since I did so well with it I would stick with another HP

 

[Shawna]

I believe there is a separate fan in the power supply or something that is attached or somehow connected to the motherboard. Whatever part it is is what failed and fried my motherboard on my HP computer I had before, the computer itself was only 2-3 years old at most. It's been about two years since it happened so I don't remember exact details, but my BIL is the one who looked at it to see what was wrong (he's an IT guy) with it and why it wouldn't boot up at all. It was going to be around $150-200+ for him to fix it (and that was for parts only, no extra labor for him to do the work etc) so we ended up just buying a brand new computer (a Gateway) since it was only a few hundred dollars more.