> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:42:36 +0200 > From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolf...@broadpark.no> > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:20:34 -0700 > Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > You included a lot of details, but missed some crucial ones. First, > > did it ever work? If so, what you probably have are fans/heat sinks > > that are clogged with dust. Give the system a good hosing with > > compressed air and see if that helps. > > If that doesn't work, disassembling the machine will allow him to more > easily clean the dust out of the fan. > Also, the T30 is (by now) a n old machine, if cleaning the fan(s) > doesn't work, he could try to change thermal paste between the cpu and > the heatsink.
And, for those who don't do this a lot, that means cleaning off all residual goo and spreading a VERY thin layer of thermal grease on both surfaces. Thin is good. Very, very thin and as even as possible. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"