Well, let's eliminate the disk. Unplug the power connector to the internal disk, and fire up the mac and wait. (Unplug the DVD as well if you want a more agressive test) This will kill 3 birds with one stone, as an unpowered disk will generate 0 BTUs, so you can see if temperature is also an issue, and your powersupply will also have a smaller load. Make sure the screen is on some setup information or something that requires a few keystrokes, otherwise you won't know if it recycled power.
I would do this before going through time & expense of replacing disk that may have nothing to do with the problem.
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by: FASTECHSPosted on 2009-10-01 at 16:44:08ID: 25474206
Here are a vareity of photos. The screen shots are what I kept getting when trying to install. Can't figure out how to get the install to work. Had the cd in and kept holding down c. The other photos are pictures of the silver and black duct that gets really hot. The other two fans on the left and right side spin.
What doe this mean?
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
Heat duct towards top of photo hot!
Attached thermal sensor to top of drive