Well, I recently invested in a brand new comptuer for myself, the first one I ever built and it was going just fine. I built it, it ran, it worked well....and then....
This amazingly loud hum began to eminate from inside my computer. I immediately thought this was through my own fault and I haven't attatched/screwed down/done something I needed to do, but with a little investigation using headphones and a microphone I located this hum to my chipset fan ontop of a heatsink on my Abit-A17 motherboard.
It started off loud and usually went quiet after a few minutes of running, but after a week or so it changed so it started off loud...and remained loud...for hours and hours. This bugged me, and while it was still under warranty I thought I'd send it back and let the shop sort it. They did and are currently shipping me a replacement.
Unfortunately though, I have a friend with exactly the same motherboad who is now experiencing the same problem. This leads me to believe it could be a design fault and not just a one-off fault as I first suspected.
So...
Is there any way that, should the problem repeat itself, or should I feel the urge to help my friend fix his noise, to stop this hum. I'm not exactly at one with technology compared with you guys, so I wouldn't know where to begin with dismantling the fan or where to oil it etc.
If I looked at my old motherboard when it made the noise, the fan was visibly running slower, so maybe some kind of mechanical obstruction with the bearings? Just a guess, but is there a cheap (or less frustrating than dealing with sub-par returns departments) way to fix this?
Turns out if I lived in America then I could buy a replacement chipset fan for only $6, but as I don't, I can't, so any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, hope you have enough info to understand what I'm on about.
--Adze
This amazingly loud hum began to eminate from inside my computer. I immediately thought this was through my own fault and I haven't attatched/screwed down/done something I needed to do, but with a little investigation using headphones and a microphone I located this hum to my chipset fan ontop of a heatsink on my Abit-A17 motherboard.
It started off loud and usually went quiet after a few minutes of running, but after a week or so it changed so it started off loud...and remained loud...for hours and hours. This bugged me, and while it was still under warranty I thought I'd send it back and let the shop sort it. They did and are currently shipping me a replacement.
Unfortunately though, I have a friend with exactly the same motherboad who is now experiencing the same problem. This leads me to believe it could be a design fault and not just a one-off fault as I first suspected.
So...
Is there any way that, should the problem repeat itself, or should I feel the urge to help my friend fix his noise, to stop this hum. I'm not exactly at one with technology compared with you guys, so I wouldn't know where to begin with dismantling the fan or where to oil it etc.
If I looked at my old motherboard when it made the noise, the fan was visibly running slower, so maybe some kind of mechanical obstruction with the bearings? Just a guess, but is there a cheap (or less frustrating than dealing with sub-par returns departments) way to fix this?
Turns out if I lived in America then I could buy a replacement chipset fan for only $6, but as I don't, I can't, so any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, hope you have enough info to understand what I'm on about.
--Adze
