From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 28 13:10:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5FE37B62C; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000628201003.KPLQ26299.relay02@chello.nl>; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:10:03 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02172; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:10:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:10:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "brian j. peterson" Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: don't panic Message-ID: <20000628221020.A2152@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000628212522.B1596@freebie.wbnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from rbw@myplace.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:56:44PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:56:44PM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > # The EV4-classic has a tendency to fry your fingers, correct. But try putting > # a fan in to cool it. I've seen *extremely* weird behaviour with overheating > # EV4 chips. > > any suggestions on a particular fan? generally i get a fan+heatsink for > my x86 chips, but the alpha has the special bolted-on heatsink. I once used a small 12Volts fan out of a Apple Mac. I used screws that just fit between the 'fins' of the heatsink. This worked very well (but looks ugly). There exist fans that have exactly the right size too. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message