I also recently went fanless. After two dead video cards (fans went out), I'm happy to get rid of the noise and gain the reliability. Jeremy On Saturday 21 June 2008 9:10:25 pm Chris Barber wrote: > I had a similar experience with one of my servers. It has a desktop > motherboard and desktop video card. The fan on the video card was the > first to go, so I replaced it with a fanless video card. The next to > start acting up was the chipset fan. I don't know what it is with > chipset fans, but they suck and are a pain in the ass to swap out. > Zalman makes a big blue heat sink (ZM-NB47J) for chipsets and they are > great. You can get them from Newegg for $5. > > -Chris > > Steve Cayford wrote: > > I had to move a couple servers from one building to another and now one > > of the machines will not boot up. The fans and drives all spin up, but I > > don't get any display or beeps. In addition, I seem to be getting an > > unusual whirring or buzzing noise from somewhere in the machine. I tried > > unplugging all the fans and drives, but still get this noise. It seems > > to be coming from somewhere on the motherboard itself which seems very > > odd. Could I have cracked the motherboard in the move? Anyone run into > > something like this? > > > > -Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list