Re: Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-11 Thread gf sciacca
i has a similar issue just recently with my Lombard. In this instance overheating was caused by the HD continuously seeking even in sleep mode (one could hear it). The machine however behaved normally if logging in under a different, newly created user. You might want to try this step as well

Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread AKR
Hi, Just wondering if anybody has had this problem with their PB. I have a 6 month old 15 AL PB. Recently, I came home and found that the PB was extremely hot to the touch. It had been in sleep mode. When I lifted it up, it had actually left two burn/char marks in the table as well as a

Re: Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread larry Zasitko
I don't think it should be getting that hot! Maybe the fans are not working. Mine definitely gets warm and I have seen temps at 58 or 59c but not higher than that. In sleep mode it should stay cold as nothing will be running. Time to get Apple to look at it On Jun 10, 2004, at 12:43 PM,

Re: Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread Larry le Mac
From: AKR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just wondering if anybody has had this problem with their PB. I also have a 15 1GHz AlBook which gets hot, but not THAT hot! If I just run it the surface below the screen gets hot, very hot to the touch, but I have the Mac placed on a couple rubber pieces picked from

Re: Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread michael_shaw
I suspect that my laptop computer never overheats. The fan has never come on. I wrote a short piece for the Double Click newsletter (either the April or May issuedownload from Files menu on the www.mause.ca website) about active and passive coolers for laptop computers. I am using the

Re: PowerBook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 6:54 PM -0400 6/10/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that my laptop computer never overheats. The fan has never come on. I wrote a short piece for the Double Click newsletter (either the April or May issuedownload from Files menu on the www.mause.ca

Re: Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread Hugo Trottier
Take it from a Tech. Not normal. Send it in it is still under warantee. Do not hesitate. Kind Regards Hugo Trottier The Digital Dispatch On 10-Jun-04, at 2:43 PM, AKR wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anybody has had this problem with their PB. I have a 6 month old 15 AL PB. Recently, I came home

Subject: Re: Powerbook overheating badly

2004-06-10 Thread Stuart Saunders
Agreed. Very not normal. Send it with pictures of burn marks - suspect no argument will be heard! On 11 Jun 2004, at 11:40 AM, G-Books wrote: Subject: Re: Powerbook overheating badly Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:04:24 -0400 Take it from a Tech. Not normal. Send it in it is still under warantee. Do