On Nov 30, 2003, at 09:02 am, Larry le Mac wrote:
The guy has mentioned that at one point he saw that the heatsink
had fallen off the graphics part. Also, he has fitted a 7200rpm harddrive
and does say that the fault appears after a short time of using it, but
is varied and erratic behavior typical of the firmware bug...
Sounds like a classic case of heat stroke. Trouble is is that the Rage 128 chip needs some sort of heat sink. Mine in my G3/400 got to the stage where I could almost make toast on it at some intervals (mostly while playing Quake 3) so it may have irreversibly damaged the chip. The 7200-rpm hard disk is probably generating just that little extra amount of heat that stops everything going right.
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