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Hot eMac... does it have a fan?
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I just received my eMac back from the repair shop. The logic board was replaced under Apple's replacement plan. The eMac seems to be much hotter to the touch and it actually has that smell caused by the wiring insulation getting too hot.
I'm planning on calling the repair shop tomorrow. . . but for now, does anyone know whether the eMac has a fan? If so, perhaps it wasn't hooked back up correctly. If anyone else had to have their logic board replaced, did you have a similar experience?
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Yes, the eMac has a fan. The burning smell could be your new hardware breaking in. However, it shouldn't heat up like that.
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Originally Posted by stefanicotine 
Yes, the eMac has a fan. The burning smell could be your new hardware breaking in. However, it shouldn't heat up like that.
I pulled the case off and discovered the problem. . . the tech forgot to reconnect the power to the fan. I plugged it back together, put the case back on, powered everything up and PRESTO!, the fan is purring right along.
Question: Do you think anything was damaged due to the eMac heating up? It was on for approximately 6 hours this afternoon with no fan. I definitely plan on calling the authorized Apple repair shop tomorrow and discussing it with them.
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That's really hard to say. Any number of things could have gone wrong, but whether or not they did is another story.
Definitely call them up and tell them what they did. That way if anything goes wrong, they'll at least know why. I think all you can do right now is wait and find out. I'm sure it's fine though. Unless you were really taxing it, I'd be quite surprised if anything was damaged. They can handle quite a bit of heat 
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Same thing happened to me once - a Compaq that some idiot forgot to connect the CPU fan on.
Unlikely that it was damaged. Most modern CPUs will simply shutdown if they get too hot - recent models will also throttle according to a complicated schedule before they do that. Don't know exactly what the G4 does. It may have shortened the lifetime of the CPU or the motherboard slightly.
I agree that you should tell them what happened, and then run the hardware test CD.
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