So...

Things were so dire towards the end of thelast week that on thursday I was watching a mad dutchman pour milk onto the central shaft of a cpu fan because as he asserted it might provide adequate lubrication. The only thing more shocking than the circumstances, would have been it had worked (it didn't).

Removing the fans to expose the heatsink, and reducing the fsb 133mhz to 66mhz basically making them pIII-366's instead of pIII-733's got us some thing like 20 more stable machines, before other people started to show up with rented pc's or additional loaners... In total in the last week we probably cycled through a 100 machines just to get 50.

PIII with heatsink exposed.


dead pc photos