On Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Glenn Schunemann wrote:
Running a B&W G3 with a G3 900 Powerlogix Zif, two 120 Maxtor drives, one 40 GB Hitachi Deskstar. I notice that the exterior of my box is pretty warm (noticeably warm to the touch and not nearly as warm as my wife's G4 1.25). I had one of my Maxtor drives give me a hassle the other day (I back up to it and my Mac kept freezing using both Psync and CCC). In the past I had no trouble at all. Thought it might be a hardware issue with the drive, but now it's doing OK. I had to boot to OS 9 and copy my home dir over manually. I'm beginning to think it was heat related. Both internal fans are working normally. I also have the newest version of both pieces of software and am running 10.3.3.
I've got the same problem with the 900 MHz ZIF in my B&W, occasionally my machine will freeze, at least the input/output will, sound'll die and mouse and keyboard won't respond, though it'll keep running, like if I'm running LimeWire I can see my download continue until I restart. Heatsink feels pretty hot when I open the case. Ordered a fan kit from macgurus.com I think, it's small enough to fit on the heatsink without overlapping the cutdown part, installed it and my hard drive crashed a couple weeks ago, had thhe fan power connector plugged into it. Got a new drive but have been scared to reinstall the fan since then.
Powerlogix says continuing to run an overheating processor can void the warranty. WTF??? How can you void a warranty by using a part *exactly* as directed??? They suggested getting some thermal compound and putting a bit on, but I think the heat's being transferred to the sink reasonably effectively since it's so hot...if it's necessary, they should tell you it's necessary and/or include it with the thing!
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