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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: heat related failures
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 16:23:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 16:23:55 1985
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After 10+ months of perfect service, my Mac recently joined the ranks of
the heat related failure statistics when I blew out a cap on the
video/power supply board. This brings up the obligatory questions: How do I
keep this from happening again? 

I'd rather not just take off the cover to reduce heat -- there are too many
things in there that I'd like to keep the prying fingers and spilling
drinks from. I'm thinking in terms of either improving the case ventilation
or adding an external fan somewhere. How are the people out there keeping
their machines cool? Mail your solutions to me and I'll summarize to the
net...

As a secondary question, I was rather unhappy with the place I took
it (Businessland in Sunnyvale). They promised a two day turnaround and
ended up taking the better part of a week. On top of that, I got to wait
while they pulled the machine apart again because they forgot to install
the brightness knob when they were putting it together again, and when I
got it home it didn't work. It took me over an hour to figure out that they
had installed the programmers switch improperly and it was jammed against
the interrupt switch, causing it to jump to hades whenever it tried to
boot... Urgh... Is this typical of Businessland? Anyone out there want to
recommend a better repair place in the Bay Area in case I need it again?
Again, mail at me and I'll summarize...

chuq
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