“If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.”
- Albert Einstein
Just when you think all your troubles are behind you... A couple of weeks ago Gemini started making sort of an intermittent ticking sound. I wasn't sure what it was, I thought maybe one of the disk drives. The problem seemed to be getting worse, but sometimes it would go away, so I ignored it for a while.
This week the sound is now constant, and does not let up - it's a ticking, buzzing sound that is really annoying. At first I thought it was a fan so I checked the inside of my computer. There seemed to be a lot of dust collecting in some of my fans and the radiator for my cooling system. I got out the vacuum cleaner and got rid of as much dust as possible, but that didn't solve the problem. Then I tried stopping the various fans to see which one it could be, but again the sound would not go away.
Finally I disconnected the power plug for the pump in my cooling system and the sound went away. The good news is I know the source of the problem, the bad news is that this is a really difficult thing to fix. It will likely result in me having to completely dismantle Gemini, ship it back to Calgary for them to replace the pump, ship it back to me, and I will have to completely rebuild Gemini from square one. That's an enormous amount of really stressful work.
I'm so not looking forward to this as it also means I will be without Gemini for two weeks or more.
