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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Sasuke Uchiha <[email protected]> wrote: > > hmm.. then it might just be powerbooks. and yes your right. the iBooks and > PowerBooks have very poor cooling. the one that im writing to you on which is > my powerbook overheats very badly and i think my motherboard is being fried. > if you think that it is totally cooling probs then download G4fancontrol. > this allows you to manually control the fans in your iBook/PowerBook. > > Hope this helps:) > > -Alex > > 2009/7/9 Kris Tilford <[email protected]> >> >> On Jul 9, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Sasuke Uchiha wrote: >> >> > ONE LAST THING!! ITS NOT YOUR FAULT ITS APPLES. when apple were >> > still on the side of the powerpc's before they went intel, they >> > bought HD's from hitatchi and placed them in iBooks and PowerBooks. >> >> All my PPC iBooks came with Toshiba or Fujitsu HDs. These were crap >> also. None lasted. I think the problem was heat and poor cooling, but >> I could be wrong. I've got a pile of dead Toshiba Apple-branded HDs >> from iBooks, but I've never seen an Hitachi yet? I've disassembled 8 >> iBooks; 3 clamshell and 5 iceBooks, most had Toshiba brand HDs. I >> replaced them with Seagate and haven't had any issues so far. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
