Does your computer sound like a supersonic jet somehow hovering directly over your workspace? Does your computer make odd scraping noises, often accompanied by random crashes? Check out this [protofusion] quick tip.<\/p>\n
Classify the problem: Are your fans loud or do they make scraping noises?<\/p>\n
Scraping noises are often caused by bad bearings, whether it be an oil-sleeve bearing or a ball bearing. Take the label off of your fan, if you see a bearing surrounding the shaft, then you do NOT have an oil-sleeve bearing.<\/p>\n
Oil sleeve bearings: Place one drop of light oil (sewing machine oil works quite well) on the spindle, replace the label, and let the fan run for a few minutes. Do not over-oil. If the fan is still noisy, remove the clip from the end of the shaft (if present) and detach the fan blades from the coil\/case assembly. Ensure that the spindle and sleeve are clean, then re-assemble and oil.<\/p>\n
Ball bearings: Place 1-2 drops of oil on the bearing(s). This may have limited success. If it fails, you can try flushing the bearings with oil, drying with paper towel, then putting on a single drop of oil.<\/p>\n
Have loud fans? Chances are you need to just replace them or throttle them.<\/p>\n
Throttling: Check out your bios for settings related to “Quiet n Cool” (for AMD CPU fan throttling) and PWM settings for other 3-pin fans on your system. Don’t have the options or 3-pin fans? Throttling can be done manually with rheostats and resistors, just make sure you don’t over heat your system.<\/p>\n
Replacement: Check out eBay or your local junk drawer for any fans that may work as decent replacements. Feel free to use overly large fans on small heatsinks, such as northbridges; if positioned correctly, these may render decent results. Warning: Don’t try this with graphics card heatsinks, as they get much hotter than the average northbridge under load. <\/em>For case fans, try and get larger (120mm) fans if your case accommodates them. Larger == less rpm == less noise + good airflow.<\/p>\n Any questions, comments, or criticism? Feel free to leave some comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does your computer sound like a supersonic jet somehow hovering directly over your workspace? Does your computer make odd scraping noises, often accompanied by random crashes? Check out this [protofusion] quick tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-tips","tag-hardware","tag-quick-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNjAs-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}