Re: Pismo status
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:30:07PM +0000, Sergio Brandano wrote:
> Ok Sven. You are convinced about your idea, but I am still skeptical.
> In order to persuade me, I need a proof. Please perform this simple
> experiment, then report the result. The experiment is as follows.
> Have a nice and long trip with your car, then come back home, and
> switch the engine off ensuring that the cooling fan is not spinning.
> Let us know if your car starts again the next day.
Well, I'm not Sven, but...
My 1999 Saturn always turns the fan off when the ignition is turned off. I
actually haven't seen a car made in the last 5 years that would leave the
fan on after shutdown. Perhaps the manufacturers realized it only cooled
the no-longer-circulating water in the radiator. So, you might say I
perform this experiment every time I take a nice long trip.
> If you prefer, you can perform the similar experiment with your brand new
> PowerBook 500Mhz. Just run an intensive floating point application
> for a long time, then shutdown. Keep doing it every day, for a week
> or so. Let us know it your jewel works fine at the end of it.
Since I've never been able to get the fan to come on in my 333Mhz
powerbook, I don't know how much this applies. I haven't performed much
computation in MacOS to see if it comes on a little. Kind of intuitively,
though, the natural reaction I would have to "the CPU is too hot" would be
to turn it off. Never seen a desktop machine that ran its fan after
poweroff.
Dave Brown
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