PSU fan making noise

Cheptii · **PSU fan making noise -** 05-04-2012, 18:50 | posts: 6

Hi ,

Last week , my PSU started making some noise , but it disappears after 3 ou 4 manual restart .

Thanks for you're help ( i have an antec PSU )

pokerapar88 · 05-04-2012, 21:40 | posts: 1,526 | Location: Argentina // Buenos Aires

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cheptii

Hi ,

Last week , my PSU started making some noise , but it disappears after 3 ou 4 manual restart .

Thanks for you're help ( i have an antec PSU )

how many years of use??

Probably a fan issue, on the bearings

Darren Hodgson · 05-05-2012, 00:29 | posts: 9,735 | Location: England

Sounds to me like the bearings on the fan are wearing out. That happens to me with my last Cooler Master V8 CPU cooler fan. Eventually the fan died completely and I had to replace the cooler (since it wasn't easy to replace the fan on the V8).

robtorbay · 05-05-2012, 00:52 | posts: 147 | Location: Canada

Sounds like the fan has def had better days! Might be time to replace the PSU or the Fnn. GL mate.

smashly · 05-05-2012, 01:19 | posts: 964 | Location: Australia

Last time my PSU made noise and went quiet which I ignored only to have it take out ram and mobo a month later.

The noise was the fan, it went quiet because the fan seized and stopped working, psu fried itself. Found that out after the psu took my hardware out... lol

Laziness on my behalf.

Mufflore · 05-05-2012, 03:44 | posts: 9,545 | Location: UK

My last PSUs fan became a bit noisy so I oiled it.
It worked ok for a while bit ultimately it was too worn.
Replaced the fan and all was ok.

Its not hard to do, the fan wire should be socketed.
You can cut the wires off the old fan and solder them to the new one if its a non-standard socket or if its hard wired into the PSU.
Make sure the polarity is correct.

Cheptii · 05-05-2012, 07:31 | posts: 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by pokerapar88

how many years of use??

Probably a fan issue, on the bearings

Only 2 months

PS: Thanks for you're response