On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:52:09AM -0500, mehma sarja wrote: > On a test system running on an Atom D323(?) - removed the cover and
I thought we were talking about the Supermicro box like http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/server-systems/1u-rack-server/1u-intel-single-cpu/cse502-server-atom-d510.html ? With the following fanless motherboard: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/redx/tools/mb_image.php/cid.102051051114082109075065112088115061/gid.34/1HE_Intel_D510_Single_CPU_CSE502_Innen_neu.jpg ? > unplugged the psu fan. Good so far. The IR gun shows a psu temp of around > 97 deg F and stable. There are two small case fans - one of them has a plug The system I was talking about has only one fan, in the PSU. > on the MB that is now unplugged. The other fan wires should be snipped > eventually. And to make matters interesting, the video chip has a fan on the > heatsink. Now get this, with the fan disabled and nothing pluged into the > vga port, he temp shoots up within seconds from 84 deg F to 127 deg F. So, > that fan got re-enabled. Any fans on heatsinks are there for a reason. I would not disable these. The only way to make them fanless is to use heatpipes coupled to a much larger passively cooled heatsink. > > Mehma > === > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Volker Kuhlmann > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Wed 17 Nov 2010 22:53:11 NZDT +1300, mehma sarja wrote: > > > > > Disable the fan? How? I'm just curious. > > > > You use a screwdriver to take the case lid off, and if the fan doesn't > > have a 2- or 3-pin plug to pull off you use a pair of sidecutters to > > deal with the situation. > > > > Volker > > > > -- > > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. > > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > > -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
