[wplug] Woke up this morning to a noisy machine...hard drives?

[Poyner, Brandon]

Depending on your comfort level, cheaper and quicker is to take a
standard 80mm case fan (or whatever size fits the power supply) and
splice the wires.  Optionally do the same with a known to be good fan
out of an old power supply. Be sure to at least use electrical tape to
hold it together.  Hold breath, grab fire extinguisher, plug into wall.
Actually it's not that bad, I've done it many times before.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Russ
Schneider
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:37 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] Woke up this morning to a noisy machine...hard
drives?

Actually, this turned out to be the power supply fan.  And replacing it
on 
my Dell has proven frustrating as hell.  The supply itself has grooves
in 
it to snap into the case so I can't just buy another generic power
supply, 
and the fan is hardwired to the board inside the supply so I cant even 
replace the fan inside the damned thing.

Needless to say, due to my computer addiction, I've ordered another one
to 
be FedEx'd from Dell.  (Right now, I plugged my monitor into my
webserver 
and I'm living life like I did almost a decade ago - text only, no GUI.)

If this was in fact a stupid move, and I've overlooked something that 
would have been cheaper and quicker, please feel free to make me feel
like 
an idiot.  

-- 
[ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo)
]
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