Okay, this is an attempted spin-off / tangent of the original HOT MINI? (Definitive Step-by-Step Guide to Thermal Paste Mac mini G4 CPU topic: https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=6875.0

Here you can report problems, results, exhaust air temperatures (and possible methods of detection) concerning the G4 Mac minis. The original HOT MINI? topic itself was becoming a bit cluttered and veering off from its primary focus, so before it becomes another multi-paged, diluted juggernaut, here’s an attempted offshoot. I hope this helps to keep things a bit more clear and to also provide help to others.

There’s also another related topic dealing primarily with Hot Mini (GPU Thermal Pads) here:
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7499.0

Now, we’ll see if I can successfully split posts from one spot to another. And if not, well then this attempt will simply be nuked and I’ll begin again. But for now, if there are posts above this one…

Maybe I had some success?

(Well not completely, this was to be the first explanatory post under this new topic heading.)

Anyway, please take a bit of time and record your mini’s Exhaust Air Temperature and whether you detected any increase in your fan’s speed (within the first 10 minutes after a cold boot). And then post your results, comments and any questions under this topic.

You might just save your mini - or help someone else to preserve theirs for another TWENTY YEARS!

Thank you.
 
(And quite nice to hear from ol' DieHard again too.)

Hey Jacques!

Good to hear from you again, even if it is about the (still) hissing Quicksilver. And while I was hesitant at first to respond (hoping to give others a chance to jump in)… I notice that only you and I have commented here thus far. Anyone else care to comment? Anyone?

So, my short answer:
No, no hissing ever evident here with any Quicksilver B boards (currently running four).
And for that matter, none of the A boards here ever produced hiss either.

Check your Forum messages for the rest of my wordy response.

I’m going to necro post my own thread here I’ve come back to my QS after a bit of a break and within 5 min of turning it on my speaker started speaking to me in snake hiss. Doing some research (so many dead internet links these days!!) I came across an article suggesting Apple were aware of this ‘Design Feature’ and were looking at a fix…no fix ever arrived.

I wanted to ask if there are any members with Rev B mainboards who could check for a similar hissing sound? You’d have to disconnect any external sound devices and do a few tasks that output to the internal speaker.  I’m wondering if the hiss only occurs on Rev A and below mainboards.

well im getting a pulsar rev 1.0 and lets see how i can get it working

A couple of "I can't believes..."

1) "I can't believe" we had to get this deep in the weeds.

2) "I can't believe" there would ever be any apathetic attitudes toward re-pasting.

3) "I can't believe" that the need to re-paste is not blatantly obvious to literally every computer enthusiast.

As a retail Mac and PC repair/upgrade store owner from 1998 to 2022 I purchased many 10gram tubes of Arctic Silver and habitually serviced tons of computers from daily drivers to DAWs and graphic workstations.  Literally almost every PC we worked on would get a "free" compressor dust blow out and a very reasonable Arctic Silver paste job. 

No fancy tools needed...this was done for all new customers and every 3 years for existing clients and they loved me for it.  Their shit ran quiet and cool !  Moving my shop from New York to Southern CA was a real wake-up call.  Even in NY I was all about the power of Arctic Silver... but in SoCal it was no longer an option, it was a priority.  I mean if you live in Alaska, maybe you can bend the rules a little... but most climates (and climate controlled spaces) will make this procedure part of normal PC maintenance.

When the Mac Pros came out, I was the first in line to get a 2 foot long "T" wrench and people would drive literally over 2 hours away for my company to Arctic Silver them.  You could immediately "hear" the difference and "see" the difference with some Temp monitoring apps.

All I can say is, it's your stuff, so do what you want, but if you value your computer stuff and even remotely think of yourself as someone who likes to maintain your stuff, re-pasting is a must for vintage equipment.  You don't need any temp monitoring hardware at all, just look at a calendar... not done in 3 years, then just do it !

Now off, off topic…

Anybody else seen these / this? Just a bit pricey for my taste at present - but interesting enough that if prices might eventually come down a bit, I might spring for an ObscuraFlex™ system. See: https://obscuraflex.com/



Two sample images:



Several… Crown, Speed Graphic and various other 4x5 view cameras gathering dust around here but this piqued my interest, reminding me of my own similar results from pinhole and camera obscura pics taken so very long ago. (No, I didn’t know Jacques-Henri Lartigue or Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, personally.)

Still I am too cheap or thrifty to spring for an expensive digital back for a large format camera, but this looks like a bit of fun… and using an iPhone in the process. Well, maybe fun.

And yes, likely I can get the same or very similar soft focus and shallow depth of field effects in Photoshop… but where’s the fun in that? Sorry for the Reddit link below… but for more examples, via video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCircleJerk/comments/1klqcqa/watafak_bro/

Calm down ssp3. Try to be a decent human being and show your fellow Mac people some respect. The only hard line here is being angry and disrespectful. It’s alright to post links to whatever but/sell centric site if it’s on topic.

Take a moment and breathe before you mash the keys on your keyboard.

Alright, thank you for your response.

As for ssp3, I didn’t realize he believes he’s a police officer of this forum. I have seen him lecture others about posting eBay links on here. I don’t know what country he is from, but it’s not a crime in my country to post eBay links.

I’ve had an account on here for a number of years, but I don’t often have time to browse everything.

I’m selling all of my stuff and getting away from these computer hobbies because of snooty people such as ssp3. The world is full of people like him. He can enjoy his vintage computers while the world collapses, I’m getting ready for times when we possibly won’t have electricity. He’s German but that’s probably just a cover for his actual tribe. Freaking out over a link

I wish more people could be polite as Windoze and less of an asshole (ssp3).

This is my last post on this forum so you nerds have fun while everything turns to crap.I’ll be in my garden, growing food.

It is true, I was looking for one. But I already got one.

indbil, I think you're chasing ghosts.

IIRC, those AltiVec libraries were installed as separate parts only in the early OS9 systems. By the time 9.2.x came out, they were integrated into System
.
This info is from November 1999 (!!!)

Thanks, this is the answer I was looking for. I wasn't looking for ghosts, I was just alerted by the Sonnet PDF. So under OS 9.2.2, there's nothing to add; it works OOTB.

Mystery solved.