Good plan! It would be very annoying to take the time to replace the fan only to find that it was actually the HDD that was making all the noise!
--- Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shallax, gentoox developer, has a couple really good > utilities to > control the hardware, including a utility to quiet > the fan down from 20% > all the way to 100%... you could play with it and > see if thats whats > causing the noise. The fan is hands down the loudest > component of the xbox. > > Vic > > Ben Dash wrote: > > >I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little > >noisy and eventually I'll replace it with a quieter > >one, however, I had no idea that the hard drive was > a > >noise problem. Obviously I can't hear anything > above > >the noise of the fan currently. If the hard drive > >becomes a problem I'll probably replace it with a > >seagate barracuda since I've had good experiences > with > >them and find them to be completely silent. > > > >I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to > >xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well you > >box was working with just the 64MB, or are you > merely > >talking about your future plans. > > > >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash > >>wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the > hard > >>>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file > >>> > >>> > >>on > >> > >> > >>>hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native > >>> > >>> > >>xBox > >> > >> > >>>functions. > >>> > >>> > >>If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps > >>with the help of > >>additional installed RAM) then I could shut down > the > >>drive, gaining a > >>50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from > >>the XBox isn't a > >>problem when playing games since they tend to be > >>loud anyway, but it's > >>a real distraction when watching a relatively > quiet > >>recording. > >> > >>I figure having a slow swap would make navigating > >>the menus painful and > >>would delay the start of the playback, but once > I'm > >>actually watching > >>TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going > >>on. > >> > >>I was hoping someone on here would have already > >>tried it and could tell > >>me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't > >>work so I don't spend > >>a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the > >>wheel. > >> > >> > >> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>> > >>> > >>mythtv-users mailing list > >>[email protected] > >> > >> > >> > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Yahoo! Music Unlimited > >Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > >http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
