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GigaByte Motherboard South-Bridge Fan Replacement - removing strange noise
The south-bridge fan of one GigaByte GA-K8NS Pro started to make strange noises - actually a noise
like if a grain of sand is in the fan. I tried to buy an original replacement fan, but people
told me GigaByte does not sell the fans individually.
So I bought one of those slim VGA graphics card cooler fan/heat sink combinations, removed the slim fan
and mounted it on the original GigaByte south-bridge heat sink. I had to turn the fan a little,
so that the orginal screws fitted into the heat sink.
Actually a regular slim fan, i.e. a 40x40x8mm3
fan would probably work aswell (with different (longer) screws), but since I have my soundblaster directly above it,
I needed a really slim fan (see the photo - the soundblaster is the fuzzy thing in the lower left corner).
If you have something short in that PCI slot, i.e. a regular ethernet network card, the height of the fan should
be no problem.
This is not a perfect solution, but I wanted to avoid to remove the whole motherboard to
unmount the heat sink and fumble with that adhesive-like-hell heat conducting tape.
Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:36:11 GMT
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