The new PC I’ve been salivating about arrived yesterday — yes! on a Saturday! I did all the necessary last-minute backups and so on, exported various programs bookmarks/favorites and settings, and even burned a new installation CD for the correct version of Ubuntu (Linux), since I can’t use quite the same version that I’ve gotten used to for the last few years. All I had to do was set up the new PC, hook up the backup drive, and go.
Except…
On the very first startup of the new PC, before it even booted into Windows (which it came installed with, although I don’t expect to use it much), a message appeared at the top of the screen:
CPU fan failure. Strike the F1 key to continue or F2 to run the set-up utility.
Hoo boy.
