The Macintosh 4400/166 fan noise problem

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From: Simon Phillips
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00

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Just thought I would share this with people who don't want to put up with
the loud fan noise of the Mac 4400/166 anymore! The fan that causes the
problem is not the one for the PSU but the one at the front next to the
speaker. So here's what to do:-
1) buy a good quality pentium sized fan (remove the heatsink from it if it
came with one). This should cost no-more than 10 quid.
2) Use a strong glue like aldite and glue the fan unto the top of the
existing heatsink. (this is easily identified and is situated below the
floopy drive on the motherboard).
3) Disconnect the big fan and connect up the new fan to the same socket.

...and Bob's your uncle - a lovely relatively quiet sounding Mac computer!

-- 
Simon
www.netcomuk.co.uk/~s

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From: s@netcomuk.co.uk (Simon Phillips)
Subject: The Macintosh 4400/166 fan noise problem
Date: 1998/05/22
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