Sonnet Crecendo G3 Nubus

#1 Thu, 1 Jan 2009 - 17:06 68kMLA

It has a nice home in my 6100 now. However, the 6100 is such a heat trap it freezes about after 2 hours due to the heat.

Time for a fan I guess. I have a Pentium 1 Size fan that I could wedge in there.

Oddly, the sonnet does not have a G3/300 sticker on it. It just says Sonnet Tech 1998.

#2 Thu, 1 Jan 2009 - 19:53 68kMLA

Nevermind it is quite stable now, with all the 7.6 updates.

#3 Fri, 2 Jan 2009 - 13:01 68kMLA

7.5.x was often unstable, heat or no. Did you end up using the fan?

#4 Fri, 2 Jan 2009 - 14:41 68kMLA

No, 7.6.1 fixed the issues.

#5 Fri, 2 Jan 2009 - 18:44 68kMLA

It probably wouldn't hurt to also put the fan in there.

#6 Sat, 3 Jan 2009 - 01:52 68kMLA

My Sonnet NuBus G3/240 certainly overheated. I bought it brand new and ended up sending it back for another one because it became such a problem with freezing.

Once I got the new one, I removed the expansion cover on the back and installed a little fan which I ran off of the CD-ROM power connector. It has worked fine since. I highly recommend at least removing the expansion cover if you don't have the AV card.

#7 Sun, 4 Jan 2009 - 15:37 68kMLA

I understand the later (faster) Sonnet G3s ran quite a bit cooler, ironically