ISO oddball cooler (or repair thereto)

[D Yuniskis]

Hi,

I've got a SunPCi II (coprocessor board) that has a
noisey cooler. So far, I've not been able to find
a direct replacement -- nor anything else that comes
close to the same form factor, etc.

This auction has an illustration of the cooler:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUN-X2132A-375-..._EN_Networking_Components?hash=item5d237bc1b5

Any suggestions as to how I could repair/replace/emulate
this and still fit in the space available (i.e., not
interfere with the adjacent cards)?

Thanks!
--don

 

[D Yuniskis]

The noisy part is most likely the fan.

Yeah, that seems pretty obvious! ;-)

If you can remove the existing
cooler without damage, you can probably find an equivalent fan in
surplus. Try these dealers:

http://www.allelectronics.com/
http://www.surpluscenter.com/
http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/index.asp

No joy in any of those places.

If you examine the photo, it is not a conventional fan
nor cooler. Even the CPU socket to which it mounts is
non-standard (else I could have just found a cooler
designed for *that* particular type of socket!)

 

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Why not post this on the Sun Rescue mailing list?

geoff.

 

[D Yuniskis]

Why not post this on the Sun Rescue mailing list?

No luck, there. (I could replace the board but I would rather
*fix* it). Apparently, no one knows of a source for the coolers
themselves.