Mac Pro 2006 (1,1) is one big piece of odor !

[Spacedust]

I used to had a smelly MacPro2,1. Called AppleCare, sent to 2 service providers. Changed PSU and CPU heatsink thermal paste, but never did solve the problem. Contacted AppleCare again, this time sent to a different service provider on the suspicion of melting rubber issue (yes, MacPro2,1 is one hot machine), hence have to replace the entire enclosure, logic board mount and all that jazz. Parts were ordered, but the service provider was incompetent enough to reassemble it, end up the entire unit failed to power on. Finally Apple decided to replace with MacPro4,1, resulted in one freaking month without a Mac Pro to use. Now I've got all those redundant FB-DIMM modules laying waste.

So you have AppleCare for your machine ? Mine is out of warranty.

 

[bozz2006]

wanna sell some of those FB-DIMMs?

 

[TheSpaz]

Mine doesn't smell like anything.

 

[akadmon]

Mine has never emitted any odor. I bought it in November '06, but it actually came off the assembly line in August. A quick check of the web indicates that the odor problems started cropping up in early 2007. I came across an article on ZdNet which mentions that the fumes emitted by the affected Mac Pros are toxic, in fact carcinogenic (!), since one of the compounds is benzene (known to cause leukemia). I work in a petrochemical industry and am very familiar with what benzene smells like. I have no doubt I would have recognized the smell.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2319

 

[Eithanius]

wanna sell some of those FB-DIMMs?

Those are only pieces of 1GB modules... You want to buy them...?

So you have AppleCare for your machine ? Mine is out of warranty.

Yes I have AppleCare for both machines. In fact when they got me a new Mac Pro, they even offered me a refund of my old AppleCare even though my old MP was already 2 years down the road.

 

[bozz2006]

1GB huh... nope. it was worth a shot.

 

[dogbait]

Yep, the Mac Pro 1,1 in 2008 was found to have a smell problem, with it allegedly emitting toxic benzene fumes.

There was quite a bit of coverage in the media, eg.