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Questions tagged [fan]

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why does my dl380 G3 crank the fan up so high (and how do i stop it?)

I've got a HP DL380 and after I leave it on for a while it decides it needs to run the fans at a much higher speed than it did before. It's really loud and annoying. Is there any way to manually control the fan speed? Or otherwise get it to stop…
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CPU Fan Failure

Has anyone ever experienced the failure of the CPU fan on a server? Does any know how long roughly until a server shuts itself down after this happens if the CPU is moderately active?? I know this is something that involves a lot of variables,…
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Want to fix HP Proliant G8 DL360P "Fan Solution Not Sufficient" error instead of spending $100 for the replacement

I have a G8 DL360P at datacenter. Few days ago, it stopped booting with an error of Fan Solution Not Sufficient. I logged in to the iLO and found Fan Block 4 and 6 are degraded. I already upgraded to the newest firmware/bios and searched up about it…
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HP DL380e G8 fan noise

I bought an used HP DL380e G8 and installed at my home. I'm a little bit confused about the fan noise. ILO says, they running at 37%-47%, but the noise is like they running at 70%. On Youtube there is a video showing a DL380 G8 which is less loud…
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linux (ubuntu 17.10) fan stopped working

At some point recently, my fan stopped working. I've confirmed it's not the hardware, because in the bios I can start and stop the fan. This is an ubuntu 17.10 desktop host. I noticed that lm-sensors wasn't noticing the fan. With a bit of…
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Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen II - BCM Fan Speed Issue

Please see Update 1 hereunder for an update I would like to lower the fan speed of what I consider an optimized in terms of efficiency Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen II having two quad core Xeon E5335 cpus and 32GB (4x8GB) of RAM running Ubuntu 16.04…
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Hp Proliant ML350 G6 Fan 1 Missing

HP proliant ML350 G6, 2 fans were working (Fan 1 & 2), all of a sudden fan 1 spoilt after 2 years, bought a new fan, new fan wont work on fan 1 slot but works on other slots and without fan 1 system wont come on, keeps saying fan 1 missing
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Dell t430 very loud fan noise with pcie ssd

I have new server Dell t430 2 xenon e5-2640v3 64gb ram, 2x 1TB samsung evo 850 ssd and 2x Intel PCIE p3500 400gb ssd. When I installed Intel PCIe ssd server fan ramp up to 80% and is very loud. I tried changing fan profiles to low fan speed and it…
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HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server keeps crashing (full speed fans)

I have a problem with a HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server. Most of the time it runs fine, but after several weeks of uptime, the server crashes out of the blue. This happened about 5 times now. When it crashes, the OS (VMWare ESXi 5.5) stops working…
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Governing fan speed in Linux

We bought an HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2 server at office, to be used to run internal applications under Linux. Our OS choice runs between CentOS 6.5 and openSUSE 13.1, though the server is certified for RHEL/SLES. The first difference we noticed…
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Alternative system fans for EOL HP ML150 G6 servers

Background I have an HP ML150 G6 server that HP made 'End Of Life'. I added a second processor to the system but then was unable to get past POST due to a missing system fan. I found a diagram that showed that the ML150 G6 required a SYSFAN1 (or…
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CPU Cooling with Heatsinks

I've constructed a server that uses 2 Xeon E5-2620 CPUs and per Intel's recommendation I'm in the process of ordering heatsinks for each and I'm slightly concerned about thermal management. The case I'm using is well ventilated (the Coolermaster…
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What are my options in replacing the noisy fan in my Linksys Cisco SRW2008P managed GigE switch?

My first managed GigE switch, the Linksys SRW2008, was a dream, until it started randomly chattering on various ports. That started while I was on the road all the time, which made it take forever to diagnose, but that's a different problem. When I…
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Disable fan management on Dell Poweredge SC1425

I have Dell Poweredge SC1425 server that has a failed fan. This causes the server to increase the speed of the other fans to their maximum. The server is being used in a very cool place so I was wondering if I could disabling the monitoring for the…
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Lowering fans noise level on Sun Fire v440

Sun Fire v440 has been placed in the same room, where i'm working. It seems that it makes much more noise, than reactive plane does. I've already updated ALOM Firmware and even OpenBoot PROM, expecting that there were some new features in these…
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