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- From: worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: noisy fan...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.025118.8807@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 02:51:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: a.1993Jan8.025118.8807
- References: <1993Jan07.182749.27051@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University
- Lines: 38
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- From article <1993Jan07.182749.27051@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, by rene@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rene Bodenstaff):
- > 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 f**k up your machine, don't blame me)
-
- I have a 386-40 with 2 hd, 2 fd, tape backup, 4mb RAM, 256K cache and all
- 7 slots are filled with cards. I leave the case off, rendering the fan
- essentially useless for everything but the 200W power supply. I have had
- no heat-up problems, and my computer is on continuously. So, I would agree
- that disconnecting the fan is an alternative, assuming the power supply
- doesn't overheat. Transformers sometimes reach a "saturation" temperature
- when they are on for long periods with little or no cooling, and sufficient
- current is being drawn through them. Anyway, I haven't had any problems
- with little/no air circulating over the mother boards and expansion boards.
-
- -Jason Worley
-