3b1 getting HOT help
Norman Yarvin
yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu
Mon Jan 14 05:35:17 AEST 1991
crassi at kodak.kodak.com (Charlie Crassi) writes:
>After loading the software for the first time, about four and a half
>hour after turning the machine on for the first time, he reports that
>his machine just "shutdown".. that is his screen went blank and the
>keyboard was unresponsive. Then about every five seconds or so it made
>"a wierd clicking sound". Finally he noticed it getting hot back at the
>power supply and shut it off when he noticed that the grating over the
>area began to warp. Smart man.
You don't mention whether or not the fan was working. As the owner of a 3b1
with a warped grating over the power supply, I'd bet it wasn't. In my case,
I started a large overnight download; when I woke up I found the machine
wasn't working, and shut it off. I don't know whether this was the result
of a fan failure, but I suspect it was. Before the AT&T repairperson (the
machine was under warranty) arrived, my roommate tried turning the fan
through the fan grating, using a screwdriver. He reported that he had to
force it a bit before it started turning, i.e. it had been stuck. The AT&T
person replaced the power supply, but not the fan; it was working when she
tested it.
Eventually I replaced the fan with an AC fan. This is a reasonable
precaution even for a machine that is working well, since the standard fans
are quite unreliable.
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Norman Yarvin yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu
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