[P1] It's the fan, again....

PaulKurtz III paulkurtz at mac.com
Wed Jun 4 12:40:19 PDT 2003


I'd call up Apple and chant "LE-MON, LE-MON!" until they give you a new one.
:)

I've had a 600MHz ibook for almost a year and a half.  They changed my cd
drive and hinge in one visit shortly after purchase, but other than that, it
runs like a champ.

Paul

On 6/4/03 3:13 PM, "Fran Dollinger" <fran at dollingers.com> wrote:

> I'm totally dumbfounded by this. Once again after having my iBook back
> for 2 weeks the fan did it's thing again. Not as loudly this time but
> it stayed on for over an hour so I call Apple. This time they had me
> 'reset-all' in the Firmware settings, then run the hardware check disk.
> They gave me a case # and said call if it does it again. He wanted to
> know if I had it on a flat surface....which I do but I also had put
> four 3/4" black rubber feet under it so it would have a little better
> cleance so it wouldn't overheat...wishful thinking on my part, I
> suppose. The dang thing got so hot in the HD area that it melted some
> of the black onto the bottom of the iBook! It'll come off...but still,
> that's pretty dang hot, don't you think?
> 
> Fran



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