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- Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz
Well, my G4 MDD is now up and living after being reborn from top to bottom (I will post pics tonight of what I've done to her) but I have one question. I replaced the case fan with a 120mm aftermarket Thermaltake Thunderblade blue LED fan, and I know the G4 MDD's case fan is thermally controlled. The only problem is that this aftermarket fan is much smaller than the stock fan so at a given RPM it doesn't put out as much air as the stock fan. This means the CPU is heating up more than I would like it to, so my question is, is there any way to make the system fan run at full speed all the time?
The only other way around this is to plug the fan into the power supply directly (not going through the logic board's temperature-controlled sensor) to give it the full 12V, or it should run at full speed if I ground the black wire to the metal chassis somewhere. I'd like to find a way to do this through software, though so it doesn't look dirty. I'm already trying to figure out where and how to route the power cable for my Radeon 9800Pro... :miner:
The only other way around this is to plug the fan into the power supply directly (not going through the logic board's temperature-controlled sensor) to give it the full 12V, or it should run at full speed if I ground the black wire to the metal chassis somewhere. I'd like to find a way to do this through software, though so it doesn't look dirty. I'm already trying to figure out where and how to route the power cable for my Radeon 9800Pro... :miner: