On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:35 am, Jeremy Derr wrote: > On Thursday, July 03, 2003, at 11:57AM, Christopher Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Recently swapped the 233mhz chip on my wallstreet for a 300mhz I saw on > >ebay. I am running 512mb of ram, and OSX10.2.6. > >The machine is getting very very hot. So hot that if you lift the keyboard > >and touch the large heatsink plate it gets too hot too touch. The fan > > never seems to operate. > >Any ideaas or commetns aprecaited. Specifically: > >How hot is too hot? > >Is there any particular aspect of my setting causing the heat 9eg shoud I > >reduce the ram, or switch back to the 233mhz chip? > >Finally, is there anyway to test the fan short of pulling it out? > > (a) the fan kicks on only when the processor temp gets too high > (b) if the fan fails to kick on, and the temp is way out of spec, the > machine will simply shut off spontaneously to prevent long-term damage. > > the heat sink being too hot to touch is not surprising - it's a heat sink, > that's what it's there for. > > RAM is one of the hottest items in a computer, and when you max RAM as you > have done, the heat's going to go up. to give you a parallel, i have a > PowerBook G4 867. When i have only 256MB RAM in it, the fan only kicks on a > couple of times a day, and only runs for a few minutes when it does. When I > upped to 1GB RAM, my fan comes on once every couple of hours, and probably > stays on for 20 minutes.
Also, have you replaced the HD? The 2GB that came stock in my Wallstreet seems to run cooler than the 10GB Apple-branded Toshiba that replaced it. The drive was originally a stock drive from a Pismo. WallyNavi gets kinda warm nowadays with the new drive...I might be looking into an under-laptop fan pad for it just for safety's sake. Good points on the drive: it's definitely quieter with the newer drive. Also the obvious: room enough for MacOS 9.1+Linux PPC. -.\\<-H- -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
