[CLUE-Talk] hardware vendor recommendations sought

[Charles Oriez]

At 01:48 PM 11/27/2003 -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:01:00 -0700
>"Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:
>
> > The symptoms are that the machine
> > > freezes after running for a period of time, and the intervals between
> > > reboots are getting shorter.
> >
> > This sounds a lot like overheating -- have you checked to make sure that
> > the CPU fan is still functional? Make sure the CPU fan is still running,
> > also that the PS fan is still fully functional... if this is the case,
> > the fix will be relatively inexpensive.
>
>I'll second that. One thing I've noticed, when the need arises to muck
>about inside the box, is the way that dust accumulates.

When refurbishing machines for our RecycleIT project, I'm constantly amazed 
at what accumulates inside the boxes.  Our standard practice now when 
machines come in the door is to take them outside, open them up, and use 
canned air on them.  I'm told of instances when the resultant dust clouds 
have been visible on satellite imagery.

You can get canned air at Office Depot pretty cheap.


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