> I wonder if a bad fan can do permenant damage to a CPU without totally
> frying it?
definitively! I've seen two P100 breaking after some months without
working fan (the 1st one made it ~9 months, the 2nd one ~5-6 months...)
this "breaking" only shows up *very* slowly and gives very weird errors
(e.g. write errors to SCSI tapes was the first real error we could trap;
1 byte out of ~1-10MB was wrong using AHA2940 with correct termination etc.).
all those weired problems immediately vcanished after replacing the CPU
(only replacing fan didn't help, cold CPU didn't work either)
Harald
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