Average life of a Mac

[Ear]

Just a little... closer.... almost reach the logic board

[born2print]

That PC belonged to a Dustoff® user I bet

[Ear]

H R Huff-n-da-stuff

[David]

I had one that looked like that here in the pressroom...   blew it out with canned air, the fan started working...  made tons of noise, then fried itself. 

that was my CIP3 box.

[born2print]

[Ear]

   yous freakin' guys

[David]

a bearded ostrich with a doo rag?


badass

[Ear]

<=== OG Ostrich

[David]

I want one....     

[frailer]

We've got an ex-Rugby forward/lawyer/journalist/author and all-round-mouth here. Needless to say I made a connection.

FWIW, Peter FitzSimons.

[born2print]

Does Simons FitzPeter too?

[Farabomb]

With the proper application of force and lube, yes.

[Ear]

 

[Fontaholic]

My PC server shit the bed over the weekend -- came in yesterday to find it off and when I booted it up, got a warning that the last shut-down was due to "a thermal event".

Our repair guy tried his darndest, but was unable to resurrect the machine, even when he transferred the old hard drive into a different PC tower shell (at which point I began using "Frankenstein's Monster" analogies)...

Although I had only been using this PC as a server for four years (since its predecessor gave up the ghost), the PC itself was 13 years old and still ran on Windows XP!


Now we have to figure out if the machine truly needs to be replaced or if we can do without it, seeing as how a lot of the stuff we kept it around for (platemaker, RIP processor) are no longer in the picture...

Cheers,
John the Fontaholic

Swapping drives will only work if the motherboard and cards are almost identical. If the core drivers are different, it's going to throw a fit. This is only of it's the system drive, data drives shouldn't be an issue.

It's it's old I'm betting the thermal paste between the CPU and the heatsink is dried up. It's also possible the heatsink is full of dust and/or the fan is dead. You can try and apply new paste and/or clean out the dust bunnies from the heatsink and you might be able to bring it back to life.

That's what our repair/tech guy tried to do -- apply new thermal paste, blew out all the dust bunnies (not as bad as I thought ti would be), even replaced the fan with one from a virtually identical machine we had lying around here.

All to no avail, alas...  It has gone to Silicon Heaven.

Cheers,
John the Fontaholic

[StudioMonkey]

A simple upgrade to an SSD will breath new life into your iMac, everything will feel and load extremely fast.

I have a 2008 iMac at home and it's getting slow.  I been wondering about swapping the internal HD for an SSD but it looks scary to do and I probably can't afford for Apple to do it.

Has anyone run an iMac off an external SSD boot disk?