mac-man6
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Hello everyone, a while back I picked up a G4 MDD and gave it to my sister. There's a thread on me trying to diagnose it, what it's worth and yadda yadda yadda. Fast forward 6-7 months the MDD is acting funky, freezing and wont wake up, some PCI slots don't work and the front button doesn't work reliably either. I picked up a Quicksilver and another MDD (because it was a package deal) for a Hackintosh in a Macintosh case idea. I ditch that idea and try to fix my sisters computer. The previous owner gutted everything useful out of the machines but still listed them as macs. If there's no processor, ram, video card, battery or optical drive. I think it doesn't count as a mac anymore - it's just a case with a logic board.
, spiel, backstory>
Today I swapped some things around and got a better behaved MDD (wakes properly, front power button works, PSU seems quieter). Does it matter what kind of heatsink I use on a single 1.25 ghz processor card? The single heatsink is apple part # 805-4579 or the double processor heatsink apple part #805-3300. The double heatsink has a lot more aluminum so I assume it would be just as good or better at dissipating heat. So does it matter what kind of heat sink I use?
Lastly, I'm sneaking in a second question. Both MDD's have 1.25ghz processor cards with identical apple part #s. One is on green motherboard material the other on blue. I was using the blue card before and I could retrieve the heat sensor data. I put the green in today and I can't read from the heat sensor anymore. When I started up the temperature monitor from http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html they said I changed processors and do I want to bring over settings. I said yes and now it can't give me a temperature. I'll try trashing the preferences before I try it again. Do you think this is a software issue or an issue with the daughtercard?
, spiel, backstory>
Today I swapped some things around and got a better behaved MDD (wakes properly, front power button works, PSU seems quieter). Does it matter what kind of heatsink I use on a single 1.25 ghz processor card? The single heatsink is apple part # 805-4579 or the double processor heatsink apple part #805-3300. The double heatsink has a lot more aluminum so I assume it would be just as good or better at dissipating heat. So does it matter what kind of heat sink I use?
Lastly, I'm sneaking in a second question. Both MDD's have 1.25ghz processor cards with identical apple part #s. One is on green motherboard material the other on blue. I was using the blue card before and I could retrieve the heat sensor data. I put the green in today and I can't read from the heat sensor anymore. When I started up the temperature monitor from http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html they said I changed processors and do I want to bring over settings. I said yes and now it can't give me a temperature. I'll try trashing the preferences before I try it again. Do you think this is a software issue or an issue with the daughtercard?