PC Tech Thread

Try Speedfan, I use it and it's quietened down my rig considerable. It'll ramps up the fans automatically if you do anything really intensive.

Do you know how easy it is to upgrade the RAM on the Proliant?

And moar RAM is good right?

Pretty easy, just make sure you unplug everything as you go (and plug it back in after)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxRme8wJeQ

The slightly tricky part could be getting the correct RAM as it's a bit old. A bit of googling will find it easy enough though.

Any of the other Ubiquiti Edgerouter X users encountered issues with the PPPoE connection dropping and not coming back up?

started out as maybe once or twice a week about a month ago and since yesterday been getting it every few minutes.

seems to be a known issue (the pppoe not coming back up when it fails) but is slated for a distant major release in the firmware.

I just can't see why it's suddenly got so bad.

Am I being particularly dense or don't PC's do this anyway?

Some fancy motherboards do, or you can control fans in BIOS, or put the fans through a fan controller.

This is software on the desktop, I played around a bit when I set it up but now just let it do its thing.

It's free and fairly well supported. Try it, you can always delete it if you don't like it.

Most will have 2 heat sensors CPU+mobo and let either trigger all the fans going up/down. Often you can turn up just the CPU fan(s) and have a quieter time or turn the fans up a little earlier for an overall more quiet time rather than on then off loud.

This is what Speedfan does, it reads the temperature sensors and automates the fan speeds for you. As the CPU and GPU heat up it increases the fans to keep them under whatever temperature you choose.

It also reads the SMART data from the HDD's, which is a bonus.

I've got it set up so it loads when the desktop appears. The fan noise pretty much disappears.

Thank you - I have a fan controller within my PC case which is a fractual design R4 (which is generally considered a quiet/ silent case).

Which leads me to think there is something very noisy within the case. If I wanted to quieten it down would it just be a process of elimination?

Thinking this weekend - maybe order a new CPU fan and give the PC a good ole hoover.

What sort of noise is it?

Are all the case sides done up?

Any of the HDDs lose and vibrating lots when they spin?

All the fans still have all the blades and mounted properly?

If you are having the noise all the time you could unplug the CPU fan and boot up then cut the power before the CPU overheats.

Good questions.

I'll give it a clean this eve and let you know.

The whole thing just sounds quite loud at the moment. I have 2x case fans on the front and 1 exhaust fan.

Then I guess theres the CPU and GPU fans too, which most of the time are not under load.

Also check the case fans are blowing in the right directions, I've seen a few loud builds that had fans blowing all in or all out and it didn't get good airflow just a mess in the middle.

Ok I'll try that also.

Hoping with just a good clean it will quieten it down.

If not I may see if I can go down to one fan on the front and see what a difference that makes.

okay so after playing around yesterday I've figured out that all the noise (quite a lot actually) is coming from the power supply.

I've got a cooler master GW 650. Is it a case of changing the fan within the power supply? I could do with another hard drive so figure I may as well do that at the same time.

If not and I have to buy another one are they all pretty much the same bar W?

Run hwmonitor or some other similar program and check how close to actual the rails are, the psu might be starting to fail if it's old and putting out bad voltage is a sign of that which can easily be spotted.

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Never swapped a fan that's inside a psu so can't say if it's a good idea or not.

If you are buying a new one go for something 80+ gold or higher and it should be built well. Get single rail that way you can't really wire it wrong where multiple rail ones you need to do math to spread the load about. Modular I've always found a bit pointless as once you wire it up you never see the modular crap again.

Run hwmonitor or some other similar program and check how close to actual the rails are, the psu might be starting to fail if it's old and putting out bad voltage is a sign of that which can easily be spotted.

Sorry what does this mean? I'm looking at HW monitor now!

It will show you something like this and you can see the voltages 3.3v, 5v, 12v(12v is the important one). If you look and it shows 12v as an actual of 10v or 14v then you know it's putting out the wrong voltage which is bad.

Strangely mine doesn't have that under the voltages it has CPU VCORE VIN1 AVCC 3VCC and then Vin4-15

ok I did some reading and it turns out my mobo may not be compatible with it. However I've downloaded another program called HW info -info attached.

Worrying the lowest have dipped below where they should be - on the 12v anyway.

Is this okay?

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NAS woes continue. RAM arrived, great. Easy install.

Remember when I said Ubuntu? Well, then time it booted up in Windows Server. Which I re forgotten the password. Again. (seems I had a dual install, but not sure what's triggering which one).

BUT not to worry, cause then the system refused to boot up again giving me the BSOD.

I'm thinking start afresh, new qnap and be done with it.

Oh dear :S
Sounds like your HP is not treating you well at all!

I'm waiting on the results of 4 2tb nas drives on ebay. If unsuccessful, I might bin this as a side project.

If it fails, is there a way to unpartition an ssd?

If you install Ubuntu again you'll get an option to wipe everything and start again.
Or use this https://gparted.org/livecd.php

BSOD is quite common when you have RAM issues, are you sure it's installed correctly? Have a test using this https://www.memtest86.com/

Might want to double check the ram is unbuffered buffered or whatever the correct amount as they don't mix+match well. The HPs if I remember came with ram that's whatever the usual one isn't.