I have an old-ish prebuilt right now, planning to build a new PC soon, but today (and this has happened before) one of the fans has made this loud noise what sounds like a wire is hitting it, but there's nothing there. I got rid of it for an hour by tilting it and lightly slamming it into the ground.
Very large temptation to slam it into pieces, this thing has been giving me so much trouble.
It started again about half an hour ago, and my tilt n' slam technique isn't working, only gets rid of it for 20 seconds.
What could it be and how do I get rid of it? Guessing it's a loose bearing.
[editline]20th February 2011[/editline]
Stopped for now.
Mommy, please dont make the monster come back.
Computer fans don't have ball bearings. Slamming your case into the ground is very dangerous for the hard drive, which can cause head strikes and hard drive destruction, don't do it.
Open the case up and figure out which fan is making the noise, get measurements for it in mm and go buy a replacement fan for it.
[QUOTE=bohb;28158561]Computer fans don't have ball bearings. Slamming your case into the ground is very dangerous for the hard drive, which can cause head strikes and hard drive destruction, don't do it.
Open the case up and figure out which fan is making the noise, get measurements for it in mm and go buy a replacement fan for it.[/QUOTE]
Actually, of the many types of bearings found in computer fans ball bearing type are included (1 ball, 2 ball and 1 ball, 1 sleeve). They tend to run a bit loud but last longer than some of the alternatives. However since it is a prebuilt, the more common and cheaper sleeve bearing would be used. Sleeve bearing tend to wear out fastest and do get noisy when they do.
Computer and case manufacturers stopped using ball bearing fans in the late 90s, and started using sleeve bearing fans because they are much cheaper to make. The only times you'll find ball bearing fans these days in computers are in exotic builds or really old computers made before 2000.
Out of all of my computers and parts, I only have one ball bearing 80mm fan and two 350mm fans that I pulled out of old and huge servers that I found in a scrap pile.
[QUOTE=bohb;28162547]Computer and case manufacturers stopped using ball bearing fans in the late 90s, and started using sleeve bearing fans because they are much cheaper to make. The only times you'll find ball bearing fans these days in computers are in exotic builds or really old computers made before 2000.
Out of all of my computers and parts, I only have one ball bearing 80mm fan and two 350mm fans that I pulled out of old and huge servers that I found in a scrap pile.[/QUOTE]
I expected a response similar to that which is why I grabbed a screenshot earlier from newegg
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/bearing.png[/IMG]
This of course is entirely off topic however.
Back on topic, either do as already suggested and figure out which one to replace or if you beleive you have enogh airflow already you could just unplug it (assuming it isn't the CPU fan).
[QUOTE=flamesedge;28163254]I expected a response similar to that which is why I grabbed a screenshot earlier from newegg
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/bearing.png[/img_thumb]
This of course is entirely off topic however.
Back on topic, either do as already suggested and figure out which one to replace or if you beleive you have enogh airflow already you could just unplug it (assuming it isn't the CPU fan).[/QUOTE]
Did you not read my post? I said computer manufacturers and case makers, not retail outlets.
[QUOTE=bohb;28171325]Did you not read my post? I said computer manufacturers and case makers, not retail outlets.[/QUOTE]
I could ask the same of you.Remember this post, a little above:
[quote]Actually, of the many types of bearings found in computer fans ball bearing type are included (1 ball, 2 ball and 1 ball, 1 sleeve). They tend to run a bit loud but last longer than some of the alternatives. [b] However since it is a prebuilt, the more common and cheaper sleeve bearing would be used.[/b] Sleeve bearing tend to wear out fastest and do get noisy when they do. [/quote]
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