Quote Originally Posted by cessna152towser View Post
It seems that fried motherboard is the commonest cause of death for computers.
:%s/fried motherboard/operator error/

There. Fixed that for you.

That said, I'm not trying to imply that this particular problem was operator error - but I'm at a loss to explain why a fan wouldn't come back on when the computer came back on unless it had an awful lot of hours on it, and froze a bearing when it powered down.