[rescue] E4500 questions

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Sun Sep 5 20:24:15 CDT 2004


On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:04:02PM -0400, Michael Horton wrote:
> heat sinks also just come loose with "age".
> i have this happen to a dozen of these system boards just sitting/running in
> servers that were never moved after installation.
> 
> sun told me the "glue" loses its ability to hold the heat sinks in place
> (and, if there are plastic clips, they get brittle).
> 
> i have had this happen to least a dozen of these system boards.
> 
> sun replaces the system boards if they are under contract
> (and i have replaced a dozen of these system boards).
> 

I am curious if you can tell this by looking at the temp. readings
from prtdiag - does the max temp get recorded permanently somehwere?

--Patrick



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