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Reduce fan noise on PowerBooks
This reminds me of a question I saw on VersionTracker in regards to Temperature Monitor. How hot is too hot? My 'book will get up to around 145f and it's almost too hot to handle. Plus, my hard drive started making some chugging noises after an extended h264 encoding session. When am I in trouble?
Reduce fan noise on PowerBooks
I'd be worried about "chugging noises" from your PB hard disk, if they are anything like the chugging noises** I had six weeks or so ago I'd run some disk checks. Something like Drive 10 or Disk Warrior if you have them, alternatively Drive Genius allows limited use of it for free/evaluation. Run a surface scan and make sure you don't have any bad blocks. During the scan you may hear more chugging noises from the drive doing multiple retries in the failing areas and see the scan slowing down to a crawl - not a good sign. I had both symptoms and some gradual loss*** of seemingly random files (not enough to kill the OS). This persisted even after several complete zero erases and re-installs - a fatal sign. Luckily it happened _just_ within warranty and an Apple engineer came out to fix it last week. Disappointingly, Disk Utility S.M.A.R.T status was still saying verified even though the disk was clearly in trouble.
Reduce fan noise on PowerBooks
I would be interested in the scripts you referred to ... I'm in the middle of a reformat & reinstall of 10.3.9 b/c my 10.4.1 client acting as a lightweight fileserver just had the HD crap out. The HD couldn't mount, even as a FW drive in TargetDisk Mode. (DiskRescue did a very decent job of recovery) |
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