Re: RAMFast heat problems

[eddy@cs.ucdavis.edu (arekusu)]

Tye W. Botting, SysAdmin (botting@leper.tamu.edu) wrote:
: 	I've been having my //gs freeze now that the weather is getting hotter. 
: bad that I have to turn the thing off, let it cool, and then turn it on
: again for a few more minutes of running time.  The case is off and a fan is
: cool enough.  The problem doesn't go away if I take out the other cards (ZipGS
: 5MB RAM card, or sound card), so I know it's with the RAMFast, as it also
: doesn't happen if I just run off floppies.  I've tried putting the RAMFast i
: different slots, also to no avail.  Only once have I gotten any sort of error

I've been having a lot of problems with my system lately too. I've got a 
Rev C ramfast, zip 8/32, Octoram w/ 4 megs, Audio Animator, and a Grappler+
in a ROM 3 GS. My problems range from 'freezes' to bizzare crashes, to 
plain strangeness (garbage characters in text, etc)  As with you, the system
works fine from floppies, and the problem goes away if I let it "cool down"
for a while. I leave the case on, and a conserver on top. One thing I have
recently started suspecting is my power supply. It may be that it just can't
handle all the cards I've got shoved in there. If you take a card out,
the heat & power drain are diminished, so everything works fine.

Is this a common problem with power users? My original power supply blew up
several years ago, so I'm currently using one from a ROM 1 GS. I notice it
says something like 'revision 2' on the front of it. Is there any 
difference in ampage, etc?  Should I just blow $70 on a heavy-duty power 
supply? What about internal fans?

-help! :)

-arekusu