From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} HD makes weird noise, smartmontools says OK
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:10:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904160910.02743.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0904151630s62a55abel73ff1644226f3d71@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 16 April 2009 01:30:56 Paul Hartman wrote:
> The fan on top of my case randomly starts vibrating and makes the most
> awful buzzing noise. If I touch the case in a certain spot it goes
> away (until I remove my finger). :) I usually just give it a couple
> whacks and it stops... but that's probably not a good course to take
> with a hard drive. :)
That's dirt in the bearings causing tiny wear patterns that just happen to
vibrate at a resonant frequency to buzz. When it gets bad enough they wobble
on the drive shaft and shake. Same principle as squeeking disc brakes.
Solution is a new fan. Cleaning with aerosol lubricant products temporarily
helps.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-15 23:19 [gentoo-user] {OT} HD makes weird noise, smartmontools says OK Grant
2009-04-15 23:30 ` Paul Hartman
2009-04-16 0:18 ` Grant
2009-04-16 0:31 ` Paul Hartman
2009-04-16 0:33 ` Grant
2009-04-16 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-16 7:10 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-04-16 0:32 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-04-16 0:34 ` Grant
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