Solved overheating

Post #169,510 by SpiceWare 8/16/04 1:33:31 PM Reply	Solved overheating The power supply's fan doesn't work, it's so clogged up I can barely turn it by hand. I gather its prior environment was extremely dusty. I found that out when I was installing a "PCI slot" fan. The PCI slot fan works well for now so I'm putting off fixing the other one until I'm feeling adventurous enough to take the power supply apart. I think this says a lot about Apple's design as the original CPU wasn't overheating with the broken fan. Picked up Nanosaur II. Initially it would crash right away, but the [link\|http://www.pangeasoft.net/nano2/downloads.html\|latest patch] solved the problem. Aspyr's response about the no-cars-on-highway glitch was "we don't support upgraded CPUs"(I gather no production systems had a 1.1GHz G3.) Not very impressive customer support in my book. I've done some googling and found out quite a number of people have that problem. The glitch also effects other things such as trains(I hadn't tried them before; but sure enough, I don't see any trains either). They all think that Sim City: Rush Hour was delayed because Aspyr has to finally address the bug - after all, how well would a "transportation enhancement" upgrade sell if you don't see any of it in action. I wasn't able to pick up an iSight - everyplace I went to was sold out(also overheard a lot of people trying to get iPods, which were likewise sold out). The guy at CompUSA said "the channels are clearing out because a new model is due out in a few weeks." Found out about [link\|http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/quartz_extreme_PCI_mod.html\|PCI Extreme], a small hack that enables hardware excellerated Quartz Extreme on PCI based video cards. I now getting the "rotating cube" with the fast user switching. Expose is also quite a bit snappier. There can be a slowdown on other things(due to PCI bus limits), but I've not noticed any with the 1.1 GHz G3. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #169,571 by Meerkat 8/16/04 9:36:23 PM Reply	Well done! I had a PC that had a power supply fan like that. I spent a few days wondering why it had become so quiet. Then I found out when I touched the back of the case. A tad warm... Congrats on getting more life out of your old Mac - don't think there's much more I can do for my iBook. Except, of course, whinge about it being slow. Which is something I manage to do often enough. I'll hold out for a few more months - might buy myself a nice christmas present :) Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #169,576 by boxley 8/16/04 9:50:09 PM Reply	OT do you folks get xmas bonuses? I had one once about 3 years ago, it came of course in march. Would make that xmas present easier. thanx. bill "delayed incessantly by people whose prevalent qualification was an excess of free-time" Philip Atkinson questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #169,578 by Meerkat 8/16/04 10:04:51 PM Reply	Yep. Or at least, 'Yep, provided I, and the company, have done well during the year' would be a better answer. It's generally not squillions, but better than a kick in the head :) Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #169,579 by boxley 8/16/04 10:15:25 PM Reply	I have had 2 in my life one 3 years ago that was pretty decent and was paid after I was layed off for 3k and once in 1991 I got $200 but it was a small shop, I covered my hourly rate for bench time so it was out of my bosses pocket for real. Meant a lot. thanx, bill "delayed incessantly by people whose prevalent qualification was an excess of free-time" Philip Atkinson questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #169,590 by Meerkat 8/16/04 11:42:36 PM Reply	I've only ever had about 3 in my career also. Well there was also one in a previous job where the grand christmas bonus for all staff was a somewhat insulting $7.00. It just went toward to end-of-year staff function. Maybe we had three icecubes in our drink that year instead of two :) Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #169,620 by SpiceWare 8/17/04 9:15:53 AM Reply	On occasion though it has been a while. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore

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