<html>
<head>
<style>
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma
}
</style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'>
Does the sound sound like a fan? I'm not familiar with servers all that much but the older Dell I do have has a power regulation module, and I believe these are just switch mode power supplies acting as DC to DC converters, the high frequency transformers in switch mode power supplies can make a noise similar to a fan...just a shot in the dark, but if there are no other moving parts, a buzzing transformer is pretty much all that's left to make a noise. My 2 cents. <br><br>=Jesse=<br><br>> From: tclug@lizakowski.com<br>> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org; chris@cb1inc.com<br>> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:12:00 -0500<br>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Server not posting<br>> <br>> <br>> I also recently went fanless. After two dead video cards (fans went out), I'm <br>> happy to get rid of the noise and gain the reliability. <br>> <br>> Jeremy<br>> <br>> On Saturday 21 June 2008 9:10:25 pm Chris Barber wrote:<br>> > I had a similar experience with one of my servers. It has a desktop<br>> > motherboard and desktop video card. The fan on the video card was the<br>> > first to go, so I replaced it with a fanless video card. The next to<br>> > start acting up was the chipset fan. I don't know what it is with<br>> > chipset fans, but they suck and are a pain in the ass to swap out.<br>> > Zalman makes a big blue heat sink (ZM-NB47J) for chipsets and they are<br>> > great. You can get them from Newegg for $5.<br>> ><br>> > -Chris<br>> ><br>> > Steve Cayford wrote:<br>> > > I had to move a couple servers from one building to another and now one<br>> > > of the machines will not boot up. The fans and drives all spin up, but I<br>> > > don't get any display or beeps. In addition, I seem to be getting an<br>> > > unusual whirring or buzzing noise from somewhere in the machine. I tried<br>> > > unplugging all the fans and drives, but still get this noise. It seems<br>> > > to be coming from somewhere on the motherboard itself which seems very<br>> > > odd. Could I have cracked the motherboard in the move? Anyone run into<br>> > > something like this?<br>> > ><br>> > > -Steve<br>> > ><br>> > > _______________________________________________<br>> > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> > > tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> > tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br><br /><hr />Need to know now? Get instant answers with Windows Live Messenger. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_062008' target='_new'>IM on your terms.</a></body>
</html>