Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy > hdd & powersupply fan.
I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether, e.g. booting the thing once and for all from floppies. The P/S fan solution I've posted before -- if it's an old and wimpy machine and you're daring you could maybe try even more extreme things like nuking the fan altogether. (Check your household fire insurance?) Along the same lines, you could try disabling the CPU fan as well if you have one. I ran my PIII-500E for a few hours with the CPU fan unplugged and it didn't even blink. It seems to me that there is a bit of room for trial and error here, especially if you can afford it: if the CPU overheats, the machine will crash. Whether this damages the CPU permanently I don't know, any electronics types here that know anything about this? All in all, it may be simpler and cheaper to buy a hardware MP3 player from the store down the street, but a good hack is a good hack. -chris
