vinno97

Firstly, sorry for the slow response. Christmas got in the way So apparently this setting does work. I just didn't notice it because the fan is still way louder than I'd like. I already had it set to the minimum, but it is still very loud. Setting it to high (or even one tick higher than the minimum), did increase the airflow from it. Listening, and looking, to the fan, now, it does sound like it's not spinning that fast. I suspect the bearings of the fan are just worn out, causing it to sound horrible even during it's low idle. Might still see if using an arduino (have one laying around) allows me to quieten it a bit, but that would mainly be to satisfy my curiosity then. Thanks guys!

Hi everyone! I have an interesting problem about controlling my fans without using the fan controller on my motherboard. I hope I'm in the right section for this and I'm very curious to hear what you guys think of my problem. Problem: I recently bought an HP 600 G1 mini as a home server and flashed it with Proxmox. Problem is that there are no drivers to control HP's on-board fan controller from Linux, resulting in the fan being 100% all the time (BIOS settings have no effect on actual fan speed). Now the system is most often idling and still makes an immense noise with the fan at this speed. Possible solutions? What are my options to control or reduce the fan speed? I don't mind some jankyness, but I do want it to work properly. Also, I went for this HP thin client precisely because it was a cheap solution. Can't be spending €80 on a fan solution. I currently have these three options in my head, but none of them seem like proper solutions Buy a USB fan controller Pro: can control my fans from inside linux (using fancontrol) Con: I can only find big controllers for enthousiasts for 50+ euros. I There must be something cheaper, right? Solder a resistor or potentiometer in series with the fan to reduce the fan speed to a workable speed Pro: more quiet, longer lifespan, cheap Con: doesn't adapt to temperature Solder a thermal resistor in series with the fan and glue it to the heatsink Pro: adapts to temperature Con: Probably very difficult to tune and I expect many unforeseen issues with this. Write my own driver Pro: No extra hardware and will be doing the community a service Con: No way that I'm reverse engineering this and writing a kernel for it. I'm an adequate programmer, but there are limits to my madness. What do you guys think. Is there a reasonable solution to my problem? Thanks!

Hm weird about the sound files. I can download and play them without a problem :/. I just got the PC last week and it has been like this from the beginning. I haven't done a load test for the thermals yet, might do that in a moment. Hm then maybe I should look into whether I can RMA mine. I've tried to see if anything was loose, but could not find anything.

I just got a Ryzen 5 3600 w/ stock cooler (the Wraith Stealth, right?) and it's horribly noisy. Is this a common complaint about them? I thought they were supposed to be quiet decent, but I've heard servers that were quieter. Could it be that my unit came with a factory issue? I've attached two sound files. One is recorded from 30cm away while idling in Ubuntu (Ubuntu-30cm.wav), the other one is recorded from about 50cm away while idling in the UEFI interface to make sure the CPU was truly idling (BIOS-50cm.wav). Temps are about 40°C during both recordings. EDIT: There are some high-pitched crackles in the recordings, which are not noise from the camera. The cooler actually makes these occasionally (like it's a tolerance issue) BIOS-50cm.wav Ubuntu-30cm.wav

I tested 4-6 different single sticks out of 3 different RAM sets. All used to work and I don't think all of them would suddenly be broken. 1 set came from the dead pc and 2 were stored in a box after becoming obsolete. I have no other DDR3 PC to test them, though. Thanks for the response. I guess this is it then and I'm switching to Ryzen!

Hi, This is my first post on here, but you're my last hope In short: My PC wouldn't boot with just RAM, CPU and motherboard. I tried different RAM sets in different slots without avail. I bought a new motherboard and it wouldn't boot either. Bought a cheap 5 bucks CPU and it won't boot in either motherboard. Using the PSU of a working PC didn't help either. I think my PSU went bad and might have fried them. I have a PC with a i7-3770K on a IPMMB-FM (Formosa) motherboard which I haven't used in over a year. A while ago I plugged it back in again and when I tried turning it on it gave me 6 long beeps. I got the motherboard+CPU combo from a friend and it has no manual. I found that on similar HP motherboards, this code means "something is wrong with peripherals". I unplugged everything except the RAM but it made no difference. After some more testing I concluded something was broken and decided to find a second hand LGA 1555 motherboard. I now also have a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 flashed with UEFI version U1L so it supports my i7. This motherboard, however also won't POST and gives me continuous quick beeps, meaning "power error". I then attempted to power the board with the PSU of a different PC, but this gave the same error. I did try some thinks like putting different RAM sticks in different slots, but the result was the same. To make sure it wasn't my CPU that was broken, I bought a Intel Celeron G1610 for €5 that should at least be supported by the Gigabyte board. This, however also gave me the continuous quick beeps. I now think my Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 has broken down and has in turn broken both motherboards. However, is there anything else I could try? I don't think plugging the PSU into a working system is a good idea to test this hypothesis --- Sort of off-topic: In case they're truly broken, would it be better to just upgrade my entire PC? Could I in good consciousnesses sell my i7 without being able to test if it's actually working?