On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > How can I tell if the fan is working. At what point or temperature > will the > fan kick in?
I don't know. I know the fans that were bad seemed to turn a very little, meaning only a tiny bit of air ever came out the slots. After replacement, (necessitated by the cooked HD, symptoms were: VERY HOT near HD area, heat coming from slow fan area, and bad noises from HD, as well as boot issues that cause crashes and disk corruption), the new fan came on much stronger and the new HD ran much cooler. The old HD's data was still salvageable after cooling in a freezer and quickly extracting any data using Data Rescue X (the file system was hosed too bad for Disk Warrior to repair). I'd guess that about 95% was still salvaged, including most of a large iTunes and iPhoto library that had no backup. I don't think this person has any backup now? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
