I have three machines running with no power supply fans. Normally I
wouldn't recommend this but there are situations where it can be helpful...
I work at a cement plant. If there is much air flow through the machines,
then the floppy and cdrom drives tend to fail quickly due to dust buildup.
Aslo, the PS fan fills with dust and the bearing gets ruined.
So I removed the PS fan from the power supply then cut out the grill from
the case using tinsnips. This seems to have created a large enough hole for
the warm air from the PS to escape. SO far all three machines have been
fine for over one year. These systems are pretty bare bones though, just one
HDD and a fairly mild CPU. This trick will not work if you have a lot of
HDDs or anything else that generates a lot of heat inside the case. But for
floppy based machines it seems to work for me.
The details of the systems:
1. i486DX2-66 - 2 FDDs, no CPU heatsink or fan
2. i486DX2-80 (running@100mhz) - 2 FDDs, 1 HDD, cpu heatsink and fan
3. ipent-133 - 2 FDDs, 1 HDD, cpu heatsink and fan
Elvis
>Hi,
>
>Binh Do wrote:
>>
>> This sounds rather hardware-ish but I am talking about the machine running
>> LRP with one floppy so just wonder if any of you have done that and if is it
>> safe?
>>
>> The machine is Pentium 233-MMX, Asus motherboard.
>I've done the same (just don't even think about removing the fan of the
>power supply - even though I'm told that under ideal conditions even that
>could work). But I also downclocked the cpu (to something like 90 MHz or so)
>and added the largest passive heatsink for Pentium PCs I could find.
>Everything works flawlessly so far. But, you might want to keep an eye on
>the cpu-temp on hot days nevertheless (using lmsensors).
>
>Martin
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