Markus
10-23-2007, 08:35 PM
WARNING! This story is real, everything told here DID happen :(.
Everyone I know in RL knows it, my computer makes much sound, way too much sound. Even more then the average car or bike, and enough to drive me crazy for like three years.
So one year ago I decided that this has to stop, I started to become mad. I went to some german guy, paid him some money and he gave me my brand new, ultra silent Cooler Master fan :garfield:
I was happy, as I could finally get my computer silent! No noise! No sound that dries me crazy! And I could leave it on overnight, or at least I thought so....
So I opened my Medion computer, to discover something terrible!
It doesn't have an ordinary socket 478 retention module, but some weird Medion thingy :(
So the fan was lieing, somewhere under the dust, until I went to the local computer store, together with an uncle as he had to buy a new computer (he's computer noob). And then I saw it: €5,- for a new, socket 478 retention module! Screws included :D
So today, I opened my computer and I thought, lalalalalala, remove the old fan, old retention module and install the new ones :) So I removed the fan, to discover the CPU sticked at it due to the thermal paste (sp?).
After some messing with a blowdryer, a needle, a little rope, and some brute force, I seperated them :) This took me 75 minutes.
It was dinner time right now, so I ate my dinner :)
I ate my dinner and continued to work on it. I removed the old retention module and accidentally a screw fell behind the motherboard :duh: Whatever I tried, I couldn't get it back, so I had to remove the whole thing (never did that before).
I disconnected all the wires, took the six screws that attached it to the case out, took a pic of the old situation and after some messing I completely removed the motherboard :)
I got the screw and put the motherboard back. This took my 60 minutes.
Ok, now the easy work came. Carefully I put in the new retention module, did some pins of the CPU right (they were bended :redface:) and attached the CPU. I put the new cooler in the computer, after some messing I could secure (or whatever it is called) it to the CPU, and closed the computer.
Happily I connected all the wires, and turned the computer on. It didn't blow nor shortcircuit, but I heard a veeery familiar sound.
Hours of messing, hours spend, but IT DIDN'T HELP AT ALL!!!!!
My computer made and still makes exactly the same sound as before (however, it's a lot cooler according to speedfan :f:).
I don't know what part it could be, is it the HDD? The power supply? The graphics card?
The only thing I know, is that I'm still getting crazy of this sound!
Everyone I know in RL knows it, my computer makes much sound, way too much sound. Even more then the average car or bike, and enough to drive me crazy for like three years.
So one year ago I decided that this has to stop, I started to become mad. I went to some german guy, paid him some money and he gave me my brand new, ultra silent Cooler Master fan :garfield:
I was happy, as I could finally get my computer silent! No noise! No sound that dries me crazy! And I could leave it on overnight, or at least I thought so....
So I opened my Medion computer, to discover something terrible!
It doesn't have an ordinary socket 478 retention module, but some weird Medion thingy :(
So the fan was lieing, somewhere under the dust, until I went to the local computer store, together with an uncle as he had to buy a new computer (he's computer noob). And then I saw it: €5,- for a new, socket 478 retention module! Screws included :D
So today, I opened my computer and I thought, lalalalalala, remove the old fan, old retention module and install the new ones :) So I removed the fan, to discover the CPU sticked at it due to the thermal paste (sp?).
After some messing with a blowdryer, a needle, a little rope, and some brute force, I seperated them :) This took me 75 minutes.
It was dinner time right now, so I ate my dinner :)
I ate my dinner and continued to work on it. I removed the old retention module and accidentally a screw fell behind the motherboard :duh: Whatever I tried, I couldn't get it back, so I had to remove the whole thing (never did that before).
I disconnected all the wires, took the six screws that attached it to the case out, took a pic of the old situation and after some messing I completely removed the motherboard :)
I got the screw and put the motherboard back. This took my 60 minutes.
Ok, now the easy work came. Carefully I put in the new retention module, did some pins of the CPU right (they were bended :redface:) and attached the CPU. I put the new cooler in the computer, after some messing I could secure (or whatever it is called) it to the CPU, and closed the computer.
Happily I connected all the wires, and turned the computer on. It didn't blow nor shortcircuit, but I heard a veeery familiar sound.
Hours of messing, hours spend, but IT DIDN'T HELP AT ALL!!!!!
My computer made and still makes exactly the same sound as before (however, it's a lot cooler according to speedfan :f:).
I don't know what part it could be, is it the HDD? The power supply? The graphics card?
The only thing I know, is that I'm still getting crazy of this sound!