From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E4001E9.5020207@acm.org> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:09:45 -0600 From: Corey Minyard MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Rini Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: iBook2, static electricity,and the fan References: <3E3ED9F9.5040407@acm.org> <1044307130.586.82.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <3E3F2088.3040704@acm.org> <20030204160621.GB30936@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20030204160621.GB30936@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Tom Rini wrote: >On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:08:08PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: > > > >>Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >>|On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:07, Corey Minyard wrote: >>| >>|>I have noticed recently (on a trip to dry Arizona) that if my iBook2 >>|>gets a static shock, the fan turns on and won't turn off. It's rather >>|>annoying. Is there any way to turn the fan off when this happens? >>| >>|Not that I know... except maybe putting it to sleep & waking it up >> >>I had already tried that and it didn't work :-(. Is there any way to >>get this information from Apple? >> >> > >I wonder if you don't have a loose / exposed wire or something :) Does >the fan stay on during sleep? > > > The fan shuts off during sleep, but comes right back on when you wake it. I suppose it could be a loose wire, perhaps an ungrounded temperature sensor, hard to say. -Corey ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/