Did anyone experienced something like that:
? I've noticed this today on two of my Slot 1 Pentium IIIs. I've decided to open one and see what has caused the damage:
. Not much inside - any hints what caused the leak? I can provide more photos if necessary.
Never seen that before, but none of my Slot 1s have fans (so maybe its something about that specific model of fan?); I'd guess age more than anything.
Maybe it was stored somewhere with high humidity.
Explains why they become so loud.
Luckily with the reference cooler, like that a 50mm fan will fit on two of the pegs slanted a little, once that cover fan shroud is gone and out of the way.
Use a little bit of hot-glue to hold it in place and done, no more annoying loud fan.
I usually put 50mm sunon maglev fans on them as replacements, no bearing=no bearing noise to redevelop in the future.
Is it correct this is a s.e.p.p package? I really dont like them.. I recommend to use s.e.c.c 2 ones.. then the fan is much easier to replace..
~ At least it can do black and white~
wrote:Maybe it was stored somewhere with high humidity.
No, I have a humidity meter there and it's OK - there's isn't much difference between this storage room and a living room in my house. And it happened only to two of them - two 850 MHz PIIIs with silver-colour heatsinks. The 3rd 850 MHz PIII (also silver-colour heatsink) looks OK. Several Celerons with black heatsinks also look OK. All of these have genuine Intel fans - this is my collection of boxed Slot 1 units.
wrote:Explains why they become so loud. Luckily with the reference cooler, like that a 50mm fan will fit on two of the pegs slanted a […]
Explains why they become so loud.
Luckily with the reference cooler, like that a 50mm fan will fit on two of the pegs slanted a little, once that cover fan shroud is gone and out of the way.
Use a little bit of hot-glue to hold it in place and done, no more annoying loud fan.
I usually put 50mm sunon maglev fans on them as replacements, no bearing=no bearing noise to redevelop in the future.
Well, I wanted to have genuine Intel boxed CPUs ;(.
wrote:Is it correct this is a s.e.p.p package? I really dont like them.. I recommend to use s.e.c.c 2 ones.. then the fan is much easier to replace..
It's SECC2. These are 850 MHz PIIIs.
The odd thing is they smell the same as a leaked 486 battery (or any leaked battery for that matter - I think the one leaked in my walkman smelled the same)- I always thought this is the smell of the electrolyte reacting with metal, but I don't see a source of electrolyte there, so I assume I was wrong? Here's a photo of the other side of the fan:
I'd guess they used the wrong solder or something of that nature, and it just went south. I would have thought they'd covered that area with an epoxy or similar adhesive to avoid a problem like that, but then they'd have to buy epoxy and pay someone to apply it. 😜
