Gateway 2000 GP5-200 Overheating Fix

Hi!

It's unfortunate.

A system that handled your post has its clock set into the future by a little bit. It's 7:27 PM CDT as I write this, and your reply shows up as being made at 7:43 PM CDT. Which means it hasn't happened yet and we're not having this conversation...yet. :-)

William

they call that obsolescence.

It's ok my son! :)

I noted in a different thread a few days ago, that switch mode power supply designers have a pathological need to locate any and all electrolytics as close as possible to hot components, in order to cause the service industry as much trouble as possible. Seems that mobo designers are similarly afflicted then ... d:~}

Arfa

"William R. Walsh" hath wroth:

Yech. Barbequed electrolytics. Forget the fan idea. Unsolder or just chomp out the caps. Replace them with caps that have LONG leads. Bend the leads away from the heat sink and over the edge of the motherboard. That should get them away from the heat without adding too much lead inductance.

Incidentally, I just sent to the eWaste recyclers everything in my house, office, and storage dumpster, that was slower than a PIII. I kept a few boards, but all the old machines and most of the ISA and VESA boards went away. I can now almost walk into my office without climbing over a pile of computahs. Before:

After will have to wait until after I finish purging.

Just pay the $12/year for an account. I have about 20 dyndns entries on mine, some of which are laptops and PDA's that rarely connect. They don't pull the plug on you if you have a paying account.

Still want the MCA boards? Send me a mailing address. I lost/forgot/misplace/too-lazy-to-look-for your mailing address.

Hi!

Actually--and amazingly--no, make that completely amazingly--they haven't suffered a bit! I borrowed an ESR meter and tested them. They seem to be good, and have no signs of bulging, leaking, etc. They're 105 C rated, so that probably helped. I still can't quite get over what a craptastic design idea that was.

And here I am after just resurrecting a 386DX-40. What a seriously cool machine. I didn't even know I had it. I had one before that I put in a desktop case, but it disappeared in a basement flood and I thought I'd never find another one. Lo and behold, stashed in a storage unit that I'm giving up is the same Bioteq motherboard in a mini tower case. It works great and the onboard NiCad even seems to be charging up. Have I got any 30 pin SIMMs left to max it out?

I love this old stuff and can usually find neat things to do with it.

They didn't for six years, so I'm surprised. Looks like someone took the greyghost(.dyndns.org) part away. It's got my index page and nothing else. Not sure what's going on there...?

I'll certainly give thought to getting a paid account with them, but right now I need to eliminate other debts first.

Yep, got to do that. Stay tuned...it won't be long.

William

"William R. Walsh" hath wroth:

Well, I guess raising the dead is a good pastime.

I'll do us both a favor and not mention the junk I saved. Well, maybe a hint. I have a few Compaq Portable III lunchbox machines with plasma displays.

Using NSlookup: Non-authoritative answer: Name: greyghost.dyndns.org Address: 88.214.200.163 Quite different IP from your but does bring up your home page. However, looking at the page source, there are no links to any of the tags. Methinks your index.html is busted or we're reading the page from your ISP's web server cache.

No clue on the different IP's. Reverse DNS fails to resolve anything for 12.206.251.215 except that you're on an Mediacom line. RDNS for

Just send me the address. I just want the boxes of boards out of my palatial office. I keep tripping over them. We can argue what to extort from you later.

Boy ! And I thought my workshop was bad ...

Arfa

AH, that guys looks like he really works in there :)

Jamie hath wroth:

I've seen worse. The breaking point was reached when a rather rotund customer literally could not enter the office due to the "canyon" created by all the piles of dead computahs. I also found myself using workbench space for storage and not being able to find things. When I converted the office desk into a work area, and found that I couldn't properly deal with the billing, it was time for a purge. I've been in the same office since about 1990, so I guess one purge every 17 years isn't too bad.

Work? Yeah, I do that but mostly I needed the space so that I could sleep on the floor. Maybe I'll drag in a bicycle and rollers so I can get some exercise while waiting for Windoze to boot.

The real me:

About 4MB. Give it time to load.

Move mouse around image after it's done loading.

you're setting a bad example to any customers watching this! Time is something you're not suppose to have! . It looks like you've had lots of it here! :)

Sorry if I made you feel sick. I just couldn't help spinning you round and round ( and then round and round some more ... )

Arfa

That's what *my* office/shop looks like _after_ I clean it up.

Jonesy

Good slide show... Mine mess is in several rooms...

JR the postman