[CUBE] Cube overheats

[Randy Spencer]

--- Rick Rodman <richard.rodman at verizon.net> wrote:
> I recommend a fan.  You can get the Panaflo model which is extremely 
> quiet.  I have a noisy peecee case fan which I haven't bothered to 
> replace because I'm  hard of hearing.  48C is very hot.  Make sure you 
> have plenty of open space around the cube and the "muffler".
> 

Wow, thanks for all the suggestions, the one I liked the best was to use a
USB fan, anyone know what pins would drive a standard computer fan?

> The term "crash" is a rather loose term, actually.  Do you get mouse 
> freeze?  Screen going blank?  Sudden shutdown (power off)? Blocky 
> pixels overwriting the screen?  Sad mac with hex numbers?  Blue screen 
> of death?  Kernel panic?  Are you running mac os 9 or mac os X?

Mac OS X, and I get freezes, but more often I get programs not responding to
input even though the mouse still moves, the lollipop of death I guess, the
pointer just keeps rotating, I can leave it 24 hours and it doesn't come
back.

I wanted to see how hot my computer could get so I have run Graphing
Calculator for the last 24 hours and it got to 50 degrees once and averaged
48, when I am surfing the web, like now, it's 36.  Perhaps I have just been
unlucky and had two hard drives go bad on me and just imagine it's something
else...

> 
> Some of the old macs played a sound of a car crash - I've never heard 
> it and I'd like to someday, if someone knows how to produce it 
> intentionally.

I used to hear it all the time when I powered up a Mac with no memory installed.

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Randy Spencer (http://geocities.com/israndy)
Citrus Insight #5427  510 748-0463

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