Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:12:24 -0600 From: "phillip ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please?
Well I know my libby got damn hot when I booted and before I shut off everything that starts auto when I loaded win98se.. And then put an idler on it.. The thing got so hot the wifi card seemed like it was about to melt the plastic. I can see that causing damage because of the heat.. I have been thinking of using heat sink paste on the hard drive to see if the case will cool it down a little better.. Next thing to do is to create some sort of fan holder that will be powered by the serial port -----Original Message----- From: Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 2:03 AM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please? Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 15:54:11 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please? At 11:45 PM 1/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 07:38:04 +0000 >From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please? > >Hi Neil, > >neil barnes wrote: > >It appears that the mobo is more flexible than is good for it. It also > >> appears that the 50 case and the 70 case (which had the fatter drive) >> are >> *not* identical to each other, although they will work on either machine >> with a little filing around the hole where the expansion port pokes through. >> >> Neil >> > >[T] So, would I be right in assuming I would be 'safer' finding myself >an 8.x mm drive and fitting that, rather than risking my new 'baby' on >a big fat nasty board cracking 9.5mm monster? IMHO this is much ado about nothing. If the drive slides in with minimal pressure then unless you angle the drive upwards whilst inserting it you can't do any damage. I think what is most likely happening with some people's drives is either their drives have screws or labels that sit slightly proud of the surface and are lifting the drives up (hence putting pressure on the motherboard), the black plastic under the motherboard is slightly wrinkled (again pressure on the motherboard) or they've not fully cleaned all the gunk from between the lower plastic sheet and the case (eg. the residue of the adhesive of the spacers). Also, some people remove the spacers by ripping them out through the side of the case and not by taking the mobo out to get to them, for them its real easy to miss the spacer at the far end so that may also be a factor. If you remove the plastic sheet on the bottom and the spacers you should be fine. You'll definitely be fine if the hard drive is loose enough for a drop fit. Hope this helps! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ************************************************************** _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
