G
Guest
Guest
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?)
Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the group. It might save
you some money and downtime.
MOBO is G/W late '99 vintage Tabor III originally fitted with Pentium III
500MHz CPU.
M/C stopped working, no display whatsoever, not even a raster, knew form the
sound that it was not booting properly.
Problem traced to insufficient cooling on the Powerleap Celeron1.4 GHz
Tualatin which I fitted a couple of years back.
If you also have this upgrade it might be worth opening the case about once
a year and vacuuming it out.
You will need to remove the fan from the CPU heatsink though and vacuum
underneath it to do a proper job.
I wish I had done so...I'm now back to 500MHZ CPU and I do notice the
difference : (
Regards
Patrick
Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the group. It might save
you some money and downtime.
MOBO is G/W late '99 vintage Tabor III originally fitted with Pentium III
500MHz CPU.
M/C stopped working, no display whatsoever, not even a raster, knew form the
sound that it was not booting properly.
Problem traced to insufficient cooling on the Powerleap Celeron1.4 GHz
Tualatin which I fitted a couple of years back.
If you also have this upgrade it might be worth opening the case about once
a year and vacuuming it out.
You will need to remove the fan from the CPU heatsink though and vacuum
underneath it to do a proper job.
I wish I had done so...I'm now back to 500MHZ CPU and I do notice the
difference : (
Regards
Patrick