[G5] iMac G5 or eMac G4 - buying advice

[T.L. Miller]

On 6/9/05, at 8:29 AM, Zane H. Healy, <healyzh at aracnet.com> said:

>OK, that's a bit more than simply blowing out the 
>lint.  It still sounds like something you could 
>do *once* it's out of warranty.  I wouldn't 
>recommend it before that, at least not if you can 
>afford the downtime to have it in the shop.
>
>My question is, is that the HD or CPU temp?  And 
>what was the temp initially?  That seems more 
>than a little high.

The SMART temp is the information from the HD, itself. Right now it's
reading 140.0° and Hardware Monitor is reading it as 127.4°. The HD fan
is spinning at 1814 rpm.

>One bit of advice, not to be alarmist, but make 
>sure you have backups of your data.  If that temp 
>is a problem you might need them, even if it 
>isn't you might need them.

I do it every week using SuperDuper.



Tom Miller
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