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Hack5190

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Oct 21, 2015
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In a few week's I'll be on my own for an entire weekend. So I'm starting to plan a few projects to keep me from eating too much pizza or drinking too much beer :D.
  • Bake the motherboard from my spare G5 w/'dodgy' motherboard
  • Reapply thermal paste on the dual 1.8 CPU's from spare G5
  • Install CPU's w/reapplied thermal paste in good G5 & calibrate fans
  • Install DD-WRT on a Netgear WNR2000V2
  • Reapply thermal paste to Nvidia GPU
Update 01:
  • Reapplied thermal paste on the dual 1.8 CPU's from 'dodgy' G5
  • Reapplied thermal paste to Nvidia GPU & heat sinks
  • Installed CPU's (w/reapplied thermal paste) in good G5 & calibrated fans
  • Ran system checks of both CPU's and the video card, everything passed
Update 02:
  • Removed the MB from the 'dodgy' G5 and 'heated' it, no improvement - still 'dodgy'
Update 03:
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