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- From: rene@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rene Bodenstaff)
- Subject: Re: noisy fan...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.182749.27051@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Dec15.181825.2110@spectrum.xerox.com> <1993Jan06.074530.1369@skynet.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:27:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan06.074530.1369@skynet.uucp>, ice@skynet.uucp (Ice) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec15.181825.2110@spectrum.xerox.com> sprague.wbst311@xerox.com writes:
- > [...]
- > >sounds his fan made. After it was mounted differently, he said
- > >all the noise went away.
- > >
- > >I have never really had the urge to open the power supply in my PC
- > >though. :-) Of course, it you decide to do somehting like this,
- > >make _sure_ you unplug the PC.
- > >
- > > ~ Mike (sprague.wbst311@xerox.com)
- >
- >
- > Noisy fans are a pain in the ass and they don't do their job of dissipating
- > heat as efficiently which is bad news for your computer.
- >
-
- Let me tell you what I did. My two harddisks + stone age power supply
- made such a terrible noise together, I decided to shut the fan down
- forever. I placed a switch between the power supply and the fan, so
- the fan could be turned on again when my PC starts to act strange. This
- was two years ago and nothing strange has happened; I never had to switch
- the fan back on...
-
- (If you try this yourself and fuck up your machine, don't blame me)
-
- ---< Sonic says: "more haste is more speed" >---
-