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November 18th, 2007 08:00
Power Edge 2900 noisy
Dear all, I have bought a Power Edge 2900, dual Xeon processor, 2 Gb memory and 6 HD of 500 GB. Very nice machine, but it is too much noisy. There is a way to make it more silent? Using less noisy case fans and processor cooler? thanks a lot for help
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snapohead
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November 19th, 2007 20:00
Henry B
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January 15th, 2014 06:00
Am experiencing the same problem on my power edge system... i thought the problem would have been one of the power supply but its not... Kindly help if someone knows what the issue is.......Thanks
DELL-Geoff P
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January 15th, 2014 07:00
Henry B,
Make sure your bios and ESM\BMC firmware are all current. Both items have algorithms that control the fan speeds. Also make sure all the fans are spinning on the inside. Any one fan fails the rest ramp up to compensate.
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skylarking
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January 15th, 2014 22:00
These old Dell PE servers were designed to sit in a server room and as such the design brief itself was likely that the machines are reliable with little focus on the machines being quiet. So, these machines required cooled air and lots of airflow which results in noise. Such conditions are not normally needed on consumer desktop systems which is why they are quiet....
So there is little from Dell to address this noisy side effect other than some firmware updates and checks you can make as mentioned. Frankly such updates and checks will give you little improvement. At the end of the day it's a server and noise is just to be expected in these older generations....
But all is not lost if you like to hack your hardware (and in effect re-engineer your old machine). If you do like to hack then check out this post from Brent and this post from Arnuschky (and their associated threads) for some ideas that may help you. Just don't expect Dell to support such hacks so it's all at your own risk of course...If you don't like to hack, earmuffs may help, otherwise get a desktop...