BVPPC (36/41)

From:Michael O'Hara
Date:21 Jan 2000 at 10:50:57
Subject:Re: [bvppc] Re: Re: Re: Black Outs (back again)

From: "Michael O'Hara" <amike@hashgas.org.uk>

Hi Wannes Van Causbroeck, on 19-Jan-00 05:09:49 you wrote:
>i had amjor problems with opening new screens (especially the higher modes)
>it would yust black out and sit there... now i've glued a heatsink+fan on it
>and it works great!

To the permedia�? :)

>(without casing though, if i put this back on it starts all over
>after a while. just turn up the volume of your stereo so the irritating
>wirring of>2 HD's 3 fans and a CDrom is gone).

i would put the HiFi on, but as I'm drawing power from the floppy power
header, I have no LEDs so the only way I can detect harddrive activity is by
listening to it.

>The permedia still gets cooking after opening some screens, or running a W3D
>ap, but it doesn't crash anymore. I don't know if it 's very healthy to run
>it against such temperatures though.

Stand a deskfan next to your tower? I know one guy who does this with his
micronik Zorro2 busboard + 060 + all sorts-of-zorro-boards, only way to get it
stable, only way to get it to boot!

Carpe Diem,
Mike O'Hara



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