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Fantastic Mr Fox
Fantastic Mr Fox Posts: 848
edited March 2010 in The Crudcatcher
My girlfriend wants my old PC, the only problem is when ever I turn it on now the fan starts going nuts, and it maxing out even when the PC is not doing anything.

I've formatted it, so its not running stuff that I don't know about.

To fix it I want to get a new silent fan, any suggestions?

Its a HP Pavilion and it runs an AMD 64 3200+
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  • Fantastic Mr Fox
    Fantastic Mr Fox Posts: 848
    http://www.dabs.com/products/zalman-hea ... lent%20fan
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    Either take the fan out and service it. Or take the fan out and get it's details so you know what to buy (size / volts / dB). I'd service it first and see how it runs.
  • Fantastic Mr Fox
    Fantastic Mr Fox Posts: 848
    blister pus wrote:
    Either take the fan out and service it. Or take the fan out and get it's details so you know what to buy (size / volts / dB). I'd service it first and see how it runs.

    How do I service a fan?

    Could it be that the thermostat is borked?
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    And it would help to know what fan you're on about.
  • Fantastic Mr Fox
    Fantastic Mr Fox Posts: 848
    blister pus wrote:
    And it would help to know what fan you're on about.

    What do you mean?
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  • MacAndCheese
    MacAndCheese Posts: 1,944
    Fantastic Mr Fox wrote:
    My girlfriend wants my old PC, the only problem is I 'm not surer if I've removed the tremendous amount of P0rn stashed on it and am looking for a non-suspicious sounding excuse not to give it to her.

    I've formatted it, so its not running stuff that I don't know about.

    To fix it I want to get a new silent fan, any suggestions?

    Its a HP Pavilion and it runs an AMD 64 3200+
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    so it's a cpu fan.

    take the fan off and clean it, make sure bearings work ok etc. if they don't it's new fan time. take details down while you're there.
  • Razer_MTB
    Razer_MTB Posts: 361
    Take the case off, give the insides a good clean. Dust trapped in the case vents and heatsink quite often leads to fan 'racing'.

    When you take the fan and heatsink off, get rid of the old thermal compound and get some arctic silver thermal compound and apply that before remounting the heatsink/fan

    As above, if the fan is goosed, get a new one, can pick them up pretty cheaply.
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  • OwenBird
    OwenBird Posts: 210
    I have found that filling the inside of the case with expanding foam stops rattles and noises. Just drill a small hole under the floppy drive, put the nozzle in and squirt till the noise stops and you can smell burning silicon.

    This also works for deadening rattles in car doors, but finding the floppy drive on 'em can be a bit of a ballache.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    OwenBird wrote:
    I have found that filling the inside of the case with expanding foam stops rattles and noises. Just drill a small hole under the floppy drive, put the nozzle in and squirt till the noise stops
    :lol:
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  • Koiler
    Koiler Posts: 513
    download real temp http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

    and run that, see what temps it gives when the fan is making the noise,

    is it definitely the CPU fan?

    have you tried disconnecting all the other fans? GFX card/ case etc?
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    If it's just the standard fan then it will spin fast most of the time as the tend to be a bit on the small side (70-80mm) and need to spin faster to shift more air and keep things cool, if you get an new fan try and get a bigger after market fan (if it will fit), it may be non removable and you may need a new heatsink/fan, i'm running a Nero Akasa w/120mm fan and its damn near silent.
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  • mudsucker
    mudsucker Posts: 730
    Its probably just full of dust/fluff. Get a can of compressed air (http://www.longs.co.uk/acatalog/Longs_Shopping_Site_Air_dusters_36.html#aHT5803002) and give it a blow out. if not look on dabs for a new one
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    can't you just kick it?
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  • Fantastic Mr Fox
    Fantastic Mr Fox Posts: 848
    I think its just the CPU fan, I dusted the case out a while ago to no avail, even if I run it with the sides off it makes no difference.

    I'll give the fan and heat sink a good load of compressed are and clean it all. if that doesn't work, I'll get a liquid nitrogen cooling system.
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  • Koiler
    Koiler Posts: 513
    thats serious overkill there :lol:

    http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150270

    that would do just fine for an old pc, provided you have a PWM socket on the mobo (3 pins instead of 2) then it'll be nice and quiet.

    comes with thermal compound applied already too
  • mudsucker
    mudsucker Posts: 730
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    can't you just kick it?

    As the saying goes : you don't need to know how things work, just to know where to hit them if they go wrong!
    Bikes are OK, I guess... :-)

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