Re: Overheating problem with GS

[Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

This is a common issue with that unit because the fan on the AE 
Conserver is in the wrong place to cool effectively. Have you tried 
switching to a Kensington? If thats not possible, see what happens if 
you run your system with the 3.5 drives off to the side.

The whole GS case is designed to cool by convection, and Apple engineers 
didn't count on expansion cards like accelerators, etc to seriously heat 
up the internals. Unfortunately adding an internal fan more or less just 
moves the hot air around.

See this Google thread

http://tinyurl.com/gys86

Shipping from Alaska would probably suck...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&item=300017806839

but, thats the best external cooling solution.


macdog wrote:
> I have a GS with four cards in it:  A superdrive controller, a ZipGSX
> running at 10 MHZ, a 6 meg AE ramplus card and an IDE microdrive with
> external CF enclosure.  Consistantly, after about 10 to 15 minutes, the
> GS will blue screen me with an asterick with a bunch of numbers.  If I
> take the top off the case, i do not have this problem.  I have an AE
> system saver that holds two 3.5" drives and has several outlets on the
> back and a fan to draw out the hot air.  The fan is running.  I was
> thinking of breaking out the dremel and adding some 80 mm case fans.
> Since I am using one of the upgraded GS power supplies I bought from
> GSE-Reactive, it has connectors for some fans.  Does anyone have any
> other ideas?
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Macdog, aka Jamie Steffens