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- From: rwesleyag@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: 30degC = Dead A4000!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.144401.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- Lines: 44
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:44:01 GMT
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- What's the deal with my A4000! Its getting heat stroke!
- The mouse starts staggering about the screen and the
- old disk light flash becomes a permanent feature of the
- front panel!
- This is not good. I heard a rumour that these machines
- were shipped into Australia without heat sink cement
- between the heat sink and chip, and when I recieved
- my A4000 you could definitly tell someone had been
- at it in a hurry ( mouse port screws missing, grubby
- finger marks about its rear.)
- I'm sure that the machine overheating like this is
- doing some damage to the 040.
- Today I went as far as to set a thermometer up next
- to the case and a 30 degrees it became delerious.
- (It was about 38 degrees outside, what a great big
- hot country this is!)
- Seeing as Im using my A4000 to make a quid at the
- moment I and another friend who is having a similar
- problem invested in a chip mounting fan (like the
- magnum 040 boards have I think!) and guess what,
- no difference, maybe lasts just a little longer.
- Actually, I know for a fact that overheating this
- chip is doing some damage but if these things are
- meant to run at 37 degrees?????
- What I would really like to know is WHOS RESPONSIBLE!
- If this batch of A4000s were bench tested overnight
- and died shortly after everybody went home then they
- could have been left overheated for hours! This would
- certainly reduce thier heat resistance even after the
- heat cement was added (if indeed it was amiss in the
- first place.)
- I'm sure that commodore would environmentally check
- these machines out but maybe you missed about 30 degrees
- C at about 12% humidity.
- I'm willing to bet that this is probably the hottest spot
- in the world A4000's are being used at the moment and
- there are only about 7 here.
-
- Any comments or similiar experiences!
-
- Adam and his (not so) Cool Amiga4000
-
- BTW: I love my A4000
-
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