Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:39:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Better Cooling By Drilling Holes? ( Was: Alas, L100 Wasn't
Reliable At 266MHz)
John... I had the same problem when I O/Ced my 100. No matter how I tried
to tweak the setup with things like reapplying heatsink grease, moving my
hot Xircom dialup/ethernet combo card down to the EPR et al, I just
couldn't keep the system from experiencing all kinds of overheating
problems. Every CPU is totally different in their specs from the next one
coming right out of production, so some O/C well, and others not.
That said, seems a lot of people who experiences overheating problems with
their 100 MBs at 266 have had success clocking back to 233... something I'm
considering since my 110 MB died... but I'm not good at micro
soldering/sugery.
On the topic of cooling the system down... I recall someone somewhere along
the way pointing out that a number of years back there used to be PC card
fans made specifically to cool down notebooks. I never explored that
avenue of possibility very far for some reason. Maybe I just couldn't find
any.
Matt
--- John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> John, my goal is a Lib that runs reliably without the keyboard lifted
> up or other unusual measures, in pretty much all ambient temperature
> and workload conditions.
>
> This makes me wonder, though - suppose one drilled many holes in the
> metal shield that separates the motherboard from the keyboard? Perhaps
> this would improve cooling, while the only negative would be a pleasant
> warmth at the fingertips? Or would the heat damage the keyboard?
>
> Along the same lines, suppose one drilled holes in the underside of the
> Lib's lower case. Some of the holes would be directly underneath the
> hard drive, which seems like not a bad thing for cooling. Otherwise
> would be directly under the PCMCIA cards, which might or might not be
> useful for cooling. Some others would be between the drive and PCMCIA,
> and could allow air to flow directly up to the motherboard.
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:10 AM, John Musielewicz wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:08:47 -0800 (PST)
> > From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Alas, L100 Wasn't Reliable At 266MHz
> >
> > You are correct in that you need to use thermal
> > grease. You also need to lift the keyboard up to let
> > air flow a little better. Did you make sure to replace
> > the copper conducter when you took it out?
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