Replace the cpu fan/HS with a quieter one.







On Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 7:42 pm, Jon wrote:

>I try to get my disk to sleep, but it won't do it. I have acute chronic tinnitus 

>which makes it hard for me to use a computer because of the noise. So I have installed 

>a ramdisk, and relocated all my temp files to that location and disabled all non-essential 

>windows routines, to minimize disk usage, but XP won't let me set a drive timeout 

>of less than 3 minutes. Apparently, some essential windows function does a drive 

>check every 5 minutes, and I can't get rid of it, and this means under ideal circumstances 

>the drive runs about 100 ms once every five minutes, which causes no change in temperature, 

>and yet it makes the fan run for 3 minutes, because the drive is on. Which means 

>the annoying whine is present 60% of the time minimum.

>

>I was hoping after reading that the minimum timeout for drives on windows 2003 server 

>is 20 seconds, that I could reduce my XP drives to a 20 second inactivity timeout. 

>20 seconds of fan is still overkill for keeping the machine cold, but it's a lot 

>better to have the whine 6% of the time than 60%. Here's the snag: On power management 

>options, I can't selection 20 seconds, the shortest option I get in XP is 3 minutes. 

>Is there a way to shorten this, or alter the options?

>

>Thanks

>

>Jon 

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