Unless you're bad at soldering, replacing the fan can be fairly easy. It does involve opening the power supply and voiding the warranty. Is the p/s under warranty?
Marc --- Samuel Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:56:14PM -0700, Peter Jay > Salzman wrote: > > power supply fans generally stay on 24/7. right? > > > > i have a power supply fan which turns on for the > first second or two of > > powering up, then it comes to a stop (but in such > a way that makes it > > look like it wants to turn; it dances a bit). > > > > if you leave it on for awhile, it'll start > spinning again (with an > > audible click. sounds like a switch or relay) but > only for a few > > minutes. it'll stop again. and eventually start > up again. > > > > when you power the system off, it rotates a few > times before coming to a > > halt. > > > > > > the fan rotates freely when the power is off. > > > > any ideas? (aside from buying a new supply). > > Sounds to me like you have a variable-speed fan, > probably > temperature-controlled, so that it tries to run as > slowly as possible > while still keeping the power supply cool. > > My guess is that the fan's bearings are starting to > go out, so when it > tries to go at one of its slower speeds, you get the > dancing. Then, the > power supply heats up, so it goes to a fast speed, > and starts running > again, cools the supply, and we start the whole > cycle over again. > > You can often replace just the power-supply fan > without replacing the old > supply. They're standard 80mm fans; the only hassle > might be cutting the > old power leads and soldering new ones on. > > -- > Samuel Merritt > PGP key is at > http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~merritt/snmerritt.asc > Information about PGP can be found at > http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/ > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
