Visual alert mechanisms

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I'm losing my hearing and right now and I can't hear my main server 6" away from the case. I need something that can alert me if this overheats so I can tend to it. What are my options for something like this?

What options do I have for hard disk failure as well?
 
Speedfan might work for you it has in addition to beeps some pretty fancy notification options. If you hard drives have SMART speedfan should be able to monitor and alert you of issues with them as well.

You can execute a program (shutdown program would be one possibility)
You can have a Popup message appear
You can send Send mail to yourself
And of course the useless beep.
I imagine (did not read all the stuff and I only use the program occasionally) you can do more than one with a little configuration work.
http://www.almico.com/sfarticle.php?id=4

The actions
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Three different action types are currently defined. More might be defined in the future, depending on tests and user feedback. Available actions are:
Execute
The first parameter is the full path, including the filename, to the program to execute. The second parameter specifies the parameters, if any, to be passed to the program. Do not enter command line parameters in the first parameter. Depending on the associations defined on your Windows configuration, you could even "run" a multimedia file, like a movie or a sound. Most likely you will run an EXE or a BAT. There are several scripts and tools out there that can do almost anything, including a system shutdown. Currently, SpeedFan does not include a SHUTDOWN option because of such specialized tools that are more reliable and widely tested. On the other hand, you are free to do almost anything with the supplied ability to execute anything. The called program will be executed in its own directory.
Popup message
This option will work only on the Windows versions where balloon hints are available. You are free to define an event with such an action. Make sure to test its actual result. The first parameters contains the message that will be shown. The second parameter is currently ignored.
Send mail
With this option, an email will be sent using the profile defined in CONFIGURE / MAIL. The first parameter contains the subject to be assigned to the email and the second parameter contains the mail profile to use. Currently you need to set the second parameter to 'default' (without quotes). In ther future it will be possibile to define multiple profiles. Please, consider that a profile define the way to access the mail server to send the email and the final recipient for the email. The email that will be sent contains several info about the current readings.
Beep
This is the lowest level. A simple BEEP is executed. Depending on your system configuration, the sound might come out of the internal speaker or from your sound card. It is important to know this because if the sound is originated by the internal speaker, you will hear it even if your main speakers are switched off, otherwise you will hear nothing.
 
Perhaps I should have stated: The machine is running Linux and not Windows.

I was hoping that I could find a hardware solution anyways because if this machine fails I can't send email to notify me that the machine failed.
 
If by "fail" you mean shuts down as in power supply goes offline a simple normally open 12v relay could be wired to a molex connector so that is the psu is providing power the relay is held open, when the machine fails and removes power from the molex the relay would close and you could turn on a lamp (as in regular desklamp). But the above would only indicate catastrophic failures. Yes mentioning linux would have been nice.

You need to define "fail" a fan failure causing an overheating condition would not necessarily prevent an automated email.
 
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