A short story, for the thread...
My mother asks me to help her build a desktop for under $300. So I get a bundle together, a video card, nice box, DVD and DVD burner...We get all the pieces and I install win2k, because she's afraid of XP. She has a CRT at this time. I've got everything installed, and I put MBM5 on her box cuz she saw it running on mine and thought it would be cool to be able to monitor your temps. Well, the processor was a Sempron 2500, running at about 120 F. This, she thought was too hot...
She calls me up, says her CRT monitor is doing funning wriggling and stuff. I go over to her house to see what she has done now. Yes, the screen was doing all kinds of neato moving and wriggling. I asked the right questions, ya know, what did you change, did you install something new. I just knew she messed with the video card settings. While I am trying to see the display settings, she tells me that she thinks the CPU is running hot. I asked her how hot was it running. She says 120. Well, that's about normal for that processor, I already checked. The terminal point being around 185. So, I figure out that the display settings are still at the factory default. She's got the box and the monitor stuffed in tight in her Computer desk, so I pull the monitor out to see it there is some kind of problem with plugs etc...
She had placed an oscelating fan behind the monitor to cool the box...this is AFTER I told her about magnetic interference. I turned the fan off, moved the monitor bck into place and told her to leave the fan alone.
