TSa Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Hello! I made stupid mistake and bought gen10 microserver because it looked nice. Hardware is like this: Samsung 850 pro 256 for OS win10 pro 2x wd red 4tb in SW raid 1x wd green 3b It is loud as hell when booting and very irritating after that. There is just too much noise from fan for quiet home office. Is there anything i can do about it? Please help my ears bleed! -TSa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Have you looked at the BIOS settings around cooling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSa Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) There is no settings for cooling. It only shows temperatures dimm 29, pcie 28, ambient 28, cpu 29. Only setting is thermal shutdown enabled/disabled. If I jam the fan it is totally silent... I thougt that it could be possible to replase the fan and just give it 12v directly, but it wont boot if I disconnect the fan connector. Edited October 7, 2017 by TSa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 How are your drives installed? Are all 4 (including SSD) in the main cage? How is the SSD mounted? What are your temps on the Green and Red drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSa Posted October 9, 2017 Author Share Posted October 9, 2017 SSD in cd-bay on sata5 temp 27°C Red+Red 28°C Green 27°C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Miner Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 I'm at a loss to explain your issue at the moment.... The only time I hear noticeable fan noise is when I'm working the machine hard and driving the temps up. I need to look at a few things.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gexge Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 I just bought a Gen10 microserver from HP and indeed I found that it is quite noisy even in idle. (booted from USB stick with no HDDs mounted) Is there a way to change the fan to a better one or are there any options to reduce the noise? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scepticalist Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 (edited) I expect any 4 pin fan will work as along as you wire the connector corrrectly. Disconnection won;t work as it will detect that. Having said this, I don;t find the noise too intrusive running 4x3TB Ironwolf drives and an SSD Edited November 29, 2017 by Scepticalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scepticalist Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Just to return to this. I found this article today and I'm betting something similar will work to get a 4pin PWM fan working on the Gen10: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1377-page9.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staley Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Hello everyone. I'm facing the same problem, as I want to use the microserver as NAS and Htpc, so it's next to the TV. As it will be up 24/365 I find it too noisy. I've seen some tutorials explaining how to change the case fan in the Gen8 microserver, but I'm not sure if our connector and its pinout is the same. Does anyone knows it or has a link to any hp document that can help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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