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

Joe Jones joham at jo-ham.com
Wed Jun 4 15:34:02 PDT 2003


I don't know about Lemon.

I have a 600Mhz iBook, and it's never been as hot as it's been recently.

The case underneath became too hot to touch - I'm putting it down to 
being in Iowa in June (visiting girlfriend) so it's in a warmer 
environment and can't cool off as effectively, and the power flavour 
here is different - 120 instead of 230v, so the adapter is drawing more 
current (but I can't see it heating the iBook as a result of this.

I think the locale you have the iBook in is important - is it warm 
where you are?

Joe
On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 14:40 America/Chicago, PaulKurtz III 
wrote:

> 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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