Elsie needed a fix...
My still brilliant little webserver, Elsie, a Mac LC475, which I chipped with a true Motorola 68040 (instead of the 68LC040 originally in there, the difference being a floating point unit, something which is necessary for running any kind of Unix), had some trouble lately…
the true Motorola 68040… click to go to the corresponding Flickr-page
She had some troubles before, borking out every now and then, but what was there to do? I couldn’t find the problem, she just stopped working when she felt like it… Well, every time I discovered that she went down, I just restarted the machine and there she was again, in all her glory :-) But… this week she borked out several times so there had to be something really wrong this time, not some spoiled behaviour or anything… Now the last few days the weather’s been great here and the temperature’s been rising quite some degrees… also in my ‘servercloset’ where Elsie’s standing… So this time I started thinking this could be a heatproblem instead of anything else and this afternoon I took Elsie out of my servercloset for a fix-up… And indeed, the CPU-fan I added when I chipped this machine stopped working and the thermal paste wasn’t much good either…
Some silverpaste, just like the big boys…
...and a fresh fan, connected very professionally…
Well, let’s see how long Elsie keeps on going this time… She’s been running in my closet since December 2004 now…
Oh, and you can find her here... if she feels like it *^_^*
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