MacGroup: hot! iBook hard drive

2005-08-05 Thread Alex Whitman
On Aug 4, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: You may want to look at your activity monitor to see if there is anything using alot of processor. Mine gets pretty warm on occasion. Usually when I am running Virtual PC. Aha!! VShieldCheck is using 70-85% of the CPU. I assume this is

MacGroup: hot! iBook hard drive

2005-08-04 Thread Brian O'Neal
You may want to look at your activity monitor to see if there is anything using alot of processor. Mine gets pretty warm on occasion. Usually when I am running Virtual PC. Restart your ibook and see if it cools any. I really don't mind this too much in the winter time. Brian O'Neal On Aug

MacGroup: hot! iBook hard drive

2005-08-03 Thread Alex Whitman
Over the past few months, my G4 iBook has been running progressively hotter. This weekend I installed Tiger, though I don't know if that's relevant. Now it's *really* hot. I feel sure I could fry an egg on the left front quarter. Is this a sign of impending hard drive death? Or something