Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1041 comp.sys.att:3718 comp.periphs:1051 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!mcdchg!ditka!csanta!greg From: greg@csanta.UUCP (Greg Comeau) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,comp.periphs Subject: Re: UNIX pc fan 27CFM vs. 34CFM and 12VDC vs. 120VAC? Keywords: fan, hot, memory Message-ID: <136@csanta.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 17:16:21 GMT References: <401@icus.UUCP> <198@elgar.UUCP> Reply-To: greg@csanta.UUCP (Root) Organization: Comeau Computing, Richmond Hill, NY Lines: 14 >... He said he had seen several 3b1's with the top of the case (to >the right side of the monitor) melted down into the power supply. Mine did this once: after replacing a hard disk, the AT&T tech forgot to plug the fan back in. Luckily, I caught it before it was too late. >> NMI (parity error) at 0x2FFAC8 (*hpte: 0xE17B) Wed Jun 22 15:00:07 1988 Lenny, one more question about this: You say a program gets a memory dump and then does the system crash? Is it always the same program (or a version of it) that does this? I know I was able to crash my UNIX PC on demand back at the 3.0 level with some sick pointer stuff. I doubt it, but perhaps this is related.