On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 01:22, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> You'll like this Lyvim... > > I've known for a while that my everything server cum router cum wife's > workstation was overheating, but it's only been a major problem (e.g. > interrupting task at hand) when she wants to play quake2. Last week I > added a 95mm fan with a resistor on it, but didn't really look at the > CPU because I have to pull the power supply to see it. > > So tonight we were playing some quake2 with a friend over the Internet, > when her machine locked up a littler earlier than it normally would. No > big deal, it started to reboot as usual, but then kernel panicked. So I > gave it the three-finger salute, went to the BIOS CPU health page, and > saw it ticking over from 98C to 100C -- yes friends, 212 degrees > Fahrenheit or the boiling point of water :-) > > Needless to say I cracked it open and found that the CPU heatsink was > blocked with cat hair and the cheap white thermal compound had burned > away. In fact, that yellow pad on the bottom of my heat sink had also > burned away. I scraped it all off and found a tube of Artic Silver II, > took out the fan resistor and hooked a third fan up. I now have the 95mm > in the front sucking in with no resistor (loud mofo) and two tiny > fellers hooked to one of those auto-speed pyramid thingies -- one on the > back of the case and one on the video card. That seems to be doing the > job so far, and I plan to get that big fan onto the auto-speed thingie > or a resistor because it is way loud. Wow. You are right...that is unbelievable. What was that TV show that was on one time? "Now THAT's INCREDIBLE!" Enjoyable story. I'm glad you didn't fry the silicon. It may be a loud mofo right now....but you're one LUCKY mofo. ;) Keep up the good karma aura, whatever you are doing right... LX P.S. Send some this way while your'e at it... :) -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk "Filter That, Bitch!" --Lanman, MDK Newbie List ������������������������������������������������
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