DL370 noisy fan

I have a DL370 with a single PIII/900 CPU in which the CPU fan
is rather noisy. It doesn't sound faulty so I assume its normal.
Is there a way to make it quieter without the CPU overheating?
Is it practical to make the fan speed temperature controlled,
or could it be as simple as putting a resistor in series?

Barry
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On Mar 21, 6:04 am, Barry OGrady <god_free_jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a DL370 with a single PIII/900 CPU in which the CPU fan
> is rather noisy. It doesn't sound faulty so I assume its normal.
> Is there a way to make it quieter without the CPU overheating?
> Is it practical to make the fan speed temperature controlled,
> or could it be as simple as putting a resistor in series?
>
> Barry
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> Home pagehttp://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og

I have an HP with a 1.4 Celeron, and it always runs at 4000+ RPMs,
regardless of CPU load. I noticed that the hardware monitor lacks a
temperature reading, so it may be that they run the fan at high RPMs
since there doesn't seem to be any temperature sensors.

Does you motherboard have temp sensors? If not, then there wouldn't be
any way of knowing when to adjust the fan speed.

Do you have the latest BIOs for your motherboard?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:39:53 -0700 (PDT), ShadowTek <> wrote:

>On Mar 21, 6:04 am, Barry OGrady <god_free_jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a DL370 with a single PIII/900 CPU in which the CPU fan
>> is rather noisy. It doesn't sound faulty so I assume its normal.
>> Is there a way to make it quieter without the CPU overheating?
>> Is it practical to make the fan speed temperature controlled,
>> or could it be as simple as putting a resistor in series?
>>
>> Barry
>> =====
>> Home pagehttp://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
>
>I have an HP with a 1.4 Celeron, and it always runs at 4000+ RPMs,
>regardless of CPU load. I noticed that the hardware monitor lacks a
>temperature reading, so it may be that they run the fan at high RPMs
>since there doesn't seem to be any temperature sensors.
>
>Does you motherboard have temp sensors? If not, then there wouldn't be
>any way of knowing when to adjust the fan speed.
>
>Do you have the latest BIOs for your motherboard?

I had installed the software from the Smartstart 5.50 CD but then I tried
installing software from the Smartstart 7.5 CD to see if it would enhance
the functionality of the IMD. Now when Windows it loaded it becomes
much less noisy, so I assume there is some driver which can control the
speed of the fan.

Barry
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