Well we sourced enough heatsinks for the 12 pc’s for Auckland Domestic Airport. Came across an interesting issue with transporting large heatsink pc’s internationally. When the client was setting up the machines 1/3 of them wouldn’t boot. A bit of detective work found that the ram modules were dislodged, in fact 1 had completely popped out!
The only explaination for this that I can see is that these machines were subjected to bumping during transport (possibly a bumpy landing) and the inertia of the 1Kg heatsink “bouncing” caused the motherboard to bend in such a fashion as to pop the memory modules out of their slots. My guess here is that the machines were upside down for the bending of the motherboard to be in the correct direction. It’s the only explaination that makes sense as the staff member who built the machines is a seasoned professional (Has been building pc’s in previous jobs for over 10 years). Intersted to hear if others have heard of similar things or have another theory on how they all popped out.
This’ll be the last heatsink post for a while, I swear..
I’m trying to fill an order for a client for 12 kiosk computers that need to have as few moving parts as possible. Part of that equation is passive / fanless CPU heatsinks. I cannot, for the life of me, find more than 4 from any supplier in Australia (they all seem to source from the same distributor…). I can’t believe, with the popularity of PVR’s that there isn’t a greater product line here in Oz…