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August 22nd, 2014 09:00
T410 iDrac6 Fan Speed
I purchased a T410 a while back and stopped using it because the fan noise was so bad. The fan would run really loudly and would go up and down for no reason. The server sits in a home office that is room temperature, around 25C. Plenty of room at the back of the server for air intake and it doesn't sit in a cupboard or anything just on my carpeted floor. Recently, I purchased an iDrac6 Express and iDrac6 Enterprise cards. This seems to have stabilised the fan speed to around 2500 but its still pretty noisy. Still so noisy I'm again considering not using the T410. I've updated the FM and BIOS to the latest versions available on the DELL Support site, but that has only served to increase the fan speed to around 2700. I assume there is no way with the iDrac6 stack to set the fan speed anywhere? Does anyone happen to have an iDrac6 stack with a T410 that's able to recommend a FM and BIOS combination that's worked for them? Or is anyone able to suggest any other solutions. Driving me mad. What a waste of money. Still cant believe that DELL ship these things with Jumbo Jet Engines!
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widen76_eab469
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January 21st, 2015 10:00
My fan speeds have significantly lowered after installing the update iDRAC6 Monolithic Release 1.98. I have set the Power Management to Custom in BIOS and everything set at "minimum" settings. After the iDrac update the fan went from 2.220 RPM to 1.440 RPM. The temperature is 24 degrees Celsius. The fan noise is now absolutely tolerable and the server would be appropriate for any small office environment.
widen76_eab469
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January 24th, 2015 05:00
Update: The noisy fan is back after shutting down the server and restarting it. It's at 1920 RPM at 24 degrees celcius.
The strange thing is that if I run the iDrac firmware update again the fan settles back down to 1440 RPM. After a restart the fans spin up, then lowers down to 1440 RPM in stages. However, after the POST the iDrac seems to notice the low RPM and spins the fan up to 1920 RPM again...this holds steady for the entire duration of the server uptime.
I've tried installing the iDrac firmware in Windows as well as in the iDrac web GUI, same result.
So the option here is to update the firmware and then not to restart the server for the fan to hold it's low RPM...