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From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Some advice needed
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 10:37:09 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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X-To: Veggy Vinny <richardc@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>

Veggy Vinny <richardc@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
 
>Well, in the morning, when I turned my machine back on yesterday, there
>was a flame on the circuit board of the 4th hard drive so that wasn't the
>problem so I just took the drive out and booted FreeBSD Unix then when I
>got home, it was still working and then the computer froze...  So when I
 
An actual flame???  Hope you had backups for everything you cared about.If you
had the case on, which would tend to channel the fan's airflow, how
were you able to see the flame?