does your case vibrate alot? Update: My CPU fan is making my case shake!!!!

[Noriaki]

Update: Ok it's the CPU fan!!!
This is freaky...

I took all the panels off my cae, and put my hand on the front I can feel it vibrate right in front of the hard drives.

But I touch the drive itself and very low vibration....

Then I grab the sides of the CPU fan and the vibrations nearly stoppped!

My 60mm CPU fan is making the case vibrate!!!

It's a thermaltake 60mm fan off a VolcanoII.....




does your case vibrate alot?

Like I put my hand on it and I can really feel it shaking....

Kinda weird...

My CD drives are all empty so they shouldn't be doing anything.

2 IBM75GXPs, one 45gig one 30gig.

2 80mm case fans one bottom front one back below PSU

PSU has 2 fans as well.

That's about all I can think of that would be causing any vibration...

 

[Syborg1211]

I have my feet on it right now and I don't feel one vibration. I took my feet off and put my hand on it and couldn't feel a thing. That's with 3 cdrom drives, a couple hard drives, floppy, 2 case fans, cpu fan, and power supply fan running. But my beast of a case (sx1030B) can handle the vibrations and you can't feel a thing.

 

[Jittos]

Maybe you can try unplug each fan at a time? (turn off your comp first each time too of course )

I dont think it's the HDs. it's a scary idea for a HD to vibrate that much.

also check y our cpu fan as well.

if you can't find the problem, you can give your comp to your gf or your sister j/k

 

[toph99]

my case vibrates horribly, especially with my delta black lable on there

 

[Burn]

I just reached over a touched my case, no shaking; sorry.

 

[nortexoid]

huh?...those fans are rather low RPM...weird.

 

[stultus]

My brother's case rattled terribly (and made tons of noise) due to his crappy retail HSF Duron fan. He replaced it with my extra 60mm fan (from the CGK760092) and everything stopped.

His motherboard recently died (I think he kicked it too many times trying to get it to stop making awful noises) and his HD. Also, when he upgraded to that Epox DDR motherboard he found that his retail goop and been totally pushed out away from the core. In other words, the fan vibratios vibrated all of the thermal coupound out. Which is bad. Which would also explain why he couldn't overclock. But now he's running his Duron 700 at 98x.

But, the things to take away:
Vibrations are bad; fix the problem before it causes another.
Don't kick your case.

 

[Jittos]

So it's the CPU fan?
Make sure your HSF is attached tightly.

also, try unscrew the fan from the HS, and screw it back in again tightly.

 

[Renob]

Is your mobo screwed down nice and snug????

 

[Noriaki]

Mobo is screwed down pretty good.

It's attached to a tray which connects to a guide bracket right beside the hard drives. That's probably what's causing the shaking.

The heatsink is a Swiftech MC370...it uses a weird clip...it's not really that tightly attached...

 

[Gogga]

I also had the same with my alpha YS tech combo. The YS tech fan (60mm) caused my case to resonate quite badly. I traced it down to the motherboard tray and tried to stabilise it by putting in a thin piece of an eraser in the tray to stop it from vibrating around. It did help a bit, but in the end I swapped the YS tech fan for my older 60mm Sunon fan I still had left which did the trick

 

[Duvie]

Is the fan out of balance...maybe just defective...I have a 120mm panaflo and it has vertually no vibration and it is screwed into side of case...

Howabout how many is connected to hsf...could that be an issue???? maybe remove and try to hot glue back on....