[CUBE] AW: [CUBE] Heat-whacked Cube prob

Meirion Roscoe roscoe at macunlimited.net
Mon Jun 30 12:34:33 PDT 2003


I had the same thing last summer.  we were doing some stuff in the 
cellar so my cube moved to the conservatory (sun-room for our 
transatlantic readers!).  We then had an unusually hot day for the UK 
and that evening, the whole thing had slowed to a crawl, took a week to 
boot up, and wouldn't run a single app worth talking about.  I got very 
worried, tried booting from the CD - took ages - no joy!  After I let 
cool down it was back to normal.  I screened the cube from direct 
sunlight after that.  Curiously, very soon after, I stuck in a 120GB WD 
HD and was so excited, I forgot to screen the cube; but even though 
we've had some stonkingly hot days (almost 65 DEG F! :-) since then, it 
never happened again.  Could it be that you're hard drive is on the way 
out and become a bit temp twitchy.  I am not an expert just a bumbling 
amateur, but I do know a tiny bit about hardware and heat just ain't 
good for 'em!

Hope this helps


Rossi
On Sunday, Jun 29, 2003, at 17:18 Europe/London, Gnarlodious wrote:

> OK Boris, I have read your CubeMod at
> http://www.cubeowner.com/overclock.html so I know you know what you're
> talking about.
>
> The screen doesn't go grey but it rather the processor slows down to a
> crawl. Or at least it seems like the processor, but maybe it's device
> access.
>
> I'm going to experiment for a few hot days and collect information.
>
> Entity Boris Jotic spoke thus:
>
>> <This sounds to me like a hardware malfunction, what typically happens
>> to <the Cube when it overheats?
>>
>>
>> Grey screen of death
>>
>> Boris
>
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