I've seen quite a few 486's with plugged heatsink fans and plugged powersupply fans while working on data collection units for the DOT. They ran fine. Not quite a sealed environment, but zero airflow. Try it and find out. Chris Gahlon Timothy Houck wrote: > Good point. Doesn't anyone know if enclosing a 486 in a sealed safe would > cause it to overheat over a reasonable time? If not, it's possible to cut > off power to the unit every so often to let it recover. > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jim Crumley wrote: > > > Well, is this still a 486 we're talking about? If so you > > might be able to get away with passive cooling if the > > safe is big enough. Or better yet make a thermal connection > > between the motherboard and and safe, and make the safe one > > big heat sink. Of course, if you did it badly you might > > have to worry about static discharges to the safe ;) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Houck > thouck at thouck.com > www.thouck.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org