Re: PC fan getting very loud
Joe wrote:
> Is the fan actually louder than it used to be on the same load? Many
> fans, and not just the cheap ones, are 'lubricated for life', where
> 'life' means 'until the lubricant dries up'.
>
> It's a pain doing anything about this, as it is almost always necessary
> to remove the rotor to add more oil, and this are usually secured with a
> tiny plastic split washer which disappears very easily. For that
> matter, the metal circlips on the more expensive ones also disappear
> easily...
The problem is the fan turns on to high speed and becomes very loud because
the load on the CPU goes high. There is nothing wrong with this per se.
My problem is to understand why the h*ll on this machine it goes crazy. It
makes the machine unusable :/
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