[rescue] quiet SPARCstation

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:24:26PM +0200, Carl-Johan Schenstrom wrote:
> > Can I get more details on this?  My 170E has the heatsink+fan and it didn't
> > turn at first... and the 2 ultras in "the haul" have the fans too...
> > makes me nervous as I've heard it causes cpu failures.
> My 170E has been running for a year and a half, possibly longer but that's
> how long it's been in my posession, without the fan and hasn't shown any
> signs of failure yet. I actually bought a new fan but hasn't replaced it
> yet. =)

I tried to get a fan on one of mine replaced by our local Sun SE about a 
year ago - he tried to order the fan, but they were no longer in stock /
backordered.. so he just "rigged" a fan from an old PC heatsink/cpu module,
since thats basically the same thing.

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
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Austin, TX