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From: Jim on 12 May 2010 01:30 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Oh - I've found the original model number as order from them - it's > FB-120-H1A -- 2-wire -- Mac polarity. And one other thing - it appeared to be a non-stock item (ie you might not find it on their website). They had to order it in from somewhere else. This was back in July 2007. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Woody on 12 May 2010 02:46 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > [snip] > > > > Mine does the knocking noise. I should have changed it some time ago, > > > > but it is not really worth it now. > > > > > > Knocking? Surely that's a fault condition? > > > > Well, that is what it sounds like the day I got it, and that is what it > > sounded like last week when I fired it up. It isn't ideal but it didn't > > sound too serious. It is just loud. > > Yeah, that's what I thought about the strange dodgy noise coming from > the fan on my old 2G4. Then one day the bearing of the failing fan > seized without warning: the graphics card, one of two CPUs, and a few > sticks of RAM got fried. > > `it didn't sound too serious' - yeah, well, nothing is, until the > catastrophic failure. True, but my 2G4 has passed its useful life with me now with no incident. It still works, can't imagine me using it for anything any more. Would stick it on ebay if it wasn't so damn heavy. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 May 2010 03:00
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > since, as I say, there's polarity issues. > > > > <pained> > > > > I would naturally assume that any fan I got `not from Apple for the Mac > > in question' would need to be wired up correctly, and that I would have > > to find out what that way of wiring was. > > In my case I'd simply mentioned what I wanted the fan for and they went > "Ah! we'll need to swap the end around!" and did it for me. Righto - nice to hear that there's at least one supplier left which knows its own stock properly. > Oh - I've found the original model number as order from them - it's > FB-120-H1A -- 2-wire -- Mac polarity. Ta :-) (and for your other post) Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |