At 6:24 AM -0400 6/27/2012, William Tomcanin wrote:
Recently I've noticed he fan on my Quicksilver G4 has been making
much more noise than usual.
I periodically clean the dust out of the interior and the
ventilation ports, but the noise persists..
What type of noise? Do you mean a bearing problem (grinding or
ticking sounds) or is it just running faster?
If the former, clean the fan. If it persists, replace it.
If the latter, ... when does it run faster and what's the ambient
room temp? If it runs faster all the time, then try resetting the
power manager after replacing the pram battery. If the speed ramps
up and down, like it should, but just seems to end up being faster,
then figure out what's causing the heat. Sometimes HDs run xtra hot
before the gak. Sometimes CPUs run extra hot if their thermal paste
has broken down... Applets such as iStat Menus have menu bar display
gizmos for the temps.
- Dan.
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