At 10:06 PM -0500 11/1/2009, James Morgan wrote: >I bought my pair of mirror door G4's new and the fans were noisy. >People complained about the noise. Apple came out with a firmware >update that quieted (Slowed) the fans. Recently my G4's have begun >to simply quit. I suspected overheating
and in what shape were the existing fans? IOW, what caused the sudden death by overheating - was it the fans giving out, or something blocking the air flow, or an aged component suddenly going up in a nova as its way of shouting "I die!"... These machines are designed to operate within a range of temps. That firmware update, as I recall, adjusted the power management as well as the fan thresholds. The results was STILL a machine operating within the specs. >so I installed Antec Super blowers in the upper PCI slots (This big >blower takes up two PCI slots) and this solved the problem. Check the system logs for overtemp warnings. Monitor the temps with something like iStat Menus. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
