beachycove
Well-known member
How hot does a functional Duo 2300c run? Does anyone else have one who could tell me?
I have a unit that freezes persistently. I cannot, for instance, run it long enough to get a 7.6.1 install done in a Dock. I had thought that the trouble was a dodgy drive, but I replaced the offending item yesterday with a known good drive, only to find that there is no improvement in the behaviour of the machine. I now wonder if the problem might be due to a heat buildup in the CPU area. The area gets noticeably hot after the 2300c has been running for 20 mins or so.
The 2300c has a large copper heatsink that covers much of the area beneath the keyboard, so presumably heat was an issue with the 603 chip. Although I have read that the 603 ran cool (compared to the 601), and so mediated the transition to the ppc powerbook, it couldn't have run all that cool. This one certainly doesn't.
It's not a big deal, as the machine isn't mission-critical or anything, but I'd like to get the old girl into working order. I love the Duos and also have a Powerbook 280c and a 270c. (The 270c runs especially cool, by the way, which I rather like, as it means that I am not wasting battery power on warming my knees. It is by far and away the more energy-efficient of the three).
Would a fresh daub of paste/ grease on the 603 chip help resurrect my 2300c, do you suppose?
I have a unit that freezes persistently. I cannot, for instance, run it long enough to get a 7.6.1 install done in a Dock. I had thought that the trouble was a dodgy drive, but I replaced the offending item yesterday with a known good drive, only to find that there is no improvement in the behaviour of the machine. I now wonder if the problem might be due to a heat buildup in the CPU area. The area gets noticeably hot after the 2300c has been running for 20 mins or so.
The 2300c has a large copper heatsink that covers much of the area beneath the keyboard, so presumably heat was an issue with the 603 chip. Although I have read that the 603 ran cool (compared to the 601), and so mediated the transition to the ppc powerbook, it couldn't have run all that cool. This one certainly doesn't.
It's not a big deal, as the machine isn't mission-critical or anything, but I'd like to get the old girl into working order. I love the Duos and also have a Powerbook 280c and a 270c. (The 270c runs especially cool, by the way, which I rather like, as it means that I am not wasting battery power on warming my knees. It is by far and away the more energy-efficient of the three).
Would a fresh daub of paste/ grease on the 603 chip help resurrect my 2300c, do you suppose?