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Vibrating sound when cold booting on P4

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phatrabt

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Hi all! Have a little problem I hop you can help with... I have a stock P4 heatsink and fan (P4 2.4C OC'd to 3Ghz) and my MB is a Giga-Byte 8IPE1000Pro that has ran very well for the long while that I've had it. The problem I'm having recently is that when I cold boot I get this vibrating rattling sound for about 30 seconds during boot up. It sounds like that CPU fan is having a problem but then seems to go away after the fan reaches normal RPM's. Anyone else have anything like this happen? I'll do some checking for reviews of coolers but I if anyone has a sugestion they'd like to make I'm all ears! Thanks all!

phatrabt
 
I, too, had a 2.4C Oc'd to 3 Ghz, but never even thought to TRY the stock cooler. I planned using an aftermarket heatpipe cooler from the get-go.

Sounds like bearing rattle to me, but hard to imagine it occurring on such a small fan as the Intel stock cooler.

It's up to you and whether you wanna spend a little money. Or you could try rigging a different fan on the stock heatsink. I embrace jerry-rigged home-DIY solutions like that, but in the case of your stock HSF, I'd just get a TR XP90 or XP 120 and be done with it. With an XP 120 and a Panaflo 120x38mm fan, you'd be looking at $50 + $17 + shipping, handling and any tax.

At least with the XP120 and a Panaflo M1 or H1 -- even the ultra-high-speed (running at only about 2,800 rpm after all) -- the enhancement would be more quiet than your stock HSF, and probably several degrees centigrade cooler. You could probably control the fan from your mobo CPU_Fan header and use SpeedFan to depress the speed to say -- around 2,000 or 2,100 at idle so that it spins up to full speed when the 2.4C climbs above -- what? -- 95F? The 2.4C is a very cool-running CPU.
 
Originally posted by: phatrabt
Hi all! Have a little problem I hop you can help with... I have a stock P4 heatsink and fan (P4 2.4C OC'd to 3Ghz) and my MB is a Giga-Byte 8IPE1000Pro that has ran very well for the long while that I've had it. The problem I'm having recently is that when I cold boot I get this vibrating rattling sound for about 30 seconds during boot up. It sounds like that CPU fan is having a problem but then seems to go away after the fan reaches normal RPM's. Anyone else have anything like this happen? I'll do some checking for reviews of coolers but I if anyone has a sugestion they'd like to make I'm all ears! Thanks all!

phatrabt
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What you have is the classic symptoms of a dirty/worn fan.

What you need to do is clean off all the dust bunnies on your fans, then lube the fan spindle with plastic-friendly light machine oil. The noise should go away afterwards.

And you have to do this regularly, once a while. More often if your fan spins at high RPMs.

HTH.
 
I've never replaced a P4 heatsink\fan before, so is it the same to apply the thermal paste? How much would you recommend?

I've decided on the XP-90 with the Vantec 92mm Silent fan. I'm also going to replace my case fans while I'm in there. I have 4 Vantec Tornado case fans always running (making my room sound like I'm at an airport half the time) so hopefully it'll quiet things down. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

phatrabt
 
I went ahead and purchased the XP90 and a 92mm Vantec Stealth fan for the PSU. I also bought some 80mm Stealth fans to replace the stock 80mm case fans in the case. How much quieter do you think it will be with the Stealths? Thanks all!

phatrabt
 
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