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6/23/2025, 6:29:37 PM
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>>105665830
Can't quote everyone who replied to me in the last thread, triggers the spam filter, so I'll just have to quote my posts only, but thanks to everyone who helped
So I unplugged the fan internally, temps are good, barely hotter than before. Maybe it's also because I re-did the thermal paste and might have tightened it better, but still it's good at idle without the fan.
Only one problem...it doesn't boot up normally, the BIOS prevents it with a message of 'Fan error'.
The only way around it is to be at the computer and quickly press Esc as soon as it pops up, then it'll bypass it.
But this means no remote reboots.
Now this is a dedicated NAS, disconnected from the outside internet, it basically never gets rebooted unless there is a power cut (v rare) or there is some physical need to.
So I'm tempted to stick with it for now, but that is kind of a bummer. 3 options long term.
>1) Keep using it without the fan, deal with the boot issue
>2) Plug the fan back in, have it spinning uselessly 99% of the day
>3) (a) Buy a fanless chink mini PC. Got any recs? Needs to have as many USB ports as possible as I doubt these machines will have any one cutting edge giga hyper speed port that all drives can use together via an enclosure or hub? Would also like TPM because it's a Windows Storage Spaces NAS (simple, just werks, great disk flexibility), and I like to have the OS encrypted, so TPM = easy reboot on encrypted Wangblows
>3) (b) Craziest option, but it bypasses limitations of prebuilt machines...build my own giant fanless NAS? Is this even possible, practical? Are there even desktop cases that are built for fanless? Or are they all built based on the idea of fans?
p.s. I have also tried TPFanControl, multiple times over the years actually, never worked on my machine for some reason. And ThinkFan is Linux-only I think.
>>105665717
>>105665830
Can't quote everyone who replied to me in the last thread, triggers the spam filter, so I'll just have to quote my posts only, but thanks to everyone who helped
So I unplugged the fan internally, temps are good, barely hotter than before. Maybe it's also because I re-did the thermal paste and might have tightened it better, but still it's good at idle without the fan.
Only one problem...it doesn't boot up normally, the BIOS prevents it with a message of 'Fan error'.
The only way around it is to be at the computer and quickly press Esc as soon as it pops up, then it'll bypass it.
But this means no remote reboots.
Now this is a dedicated NAS, disconnected from the outside internet, it basically never gets rebooted unless there is a power cut (v rare) or there is some physical need to.
So I'm tempted to stick with it for now, but that is kind of a bummer. 3 options long term.
>1) Keep using it without the fan, deal with the boot issue
>2) Plug the fan back in, have it spinning uselessly 99% of the day
>3) (a) Buy a fanless chink mini PC. Got any recs? Needs to have as many USB ports as possible as I doubt these machines will have any one cutting edge giga hyper speed port that all drives can use together via an enclosure or hub? Would also like TPM because it's a Windows Storage Spaces NAS (simple, just werks, great disk flexibility), and I like to have the OS encrypted, so TPM = easy reboot on encrypted Wangblows
>3) (b) Craziest option, but it bypasses limitations of prebuilt machines...build my own giant fanless NAS? Is this even possible, practical? Are there even desktop cases that are built for fanless? Or are they all built based on the idea of fans?
p.s. I have also tried TPFanControl, multiple times over the years actually, never worked on my machine for some reason. And ThinkFan is Linux-only I think.
6/22/2025, 3:02:06 AM
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