For some reason, the fan on my node turns on and off every few seconds, at varying speeds and noise levels. I would very much prefer to have the fan run constantly at a slow speed than turning on and off every few seconds. Any ideas?
Your server controls your fan based on needs related to heat. It’s not arbitrary.
What is your hardware? What are you running? There aren’t many details here.
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Having the same issue just now. Usually, the server is quiet, with intermittent fan activity. Now it’s running at a constant low hum. I’ve been running it for three months. Fan vents are perfectly clean. I’m running Bitcoin Knots. I tried a restart including complete power-down of the server.
It’s a Start9 Server One. The way it is frenetically turning on and off the fan every few seconds is definitely not just a response to heat changes. Something has to be wrong. It is literally cycling on and off every 3-10 seconds.
The Server One is pretty fan-happy. Whenever it does something that takes a significant amount of processor capacity, it spins up the fan… for heat as well as potential heat.
For those who need to keep the server physically near them and can hear it, you can turn off the performance boost (which if stepped into practically guarantees a fan spin up) and this can make it happen less frequently.
- Restart the server connected to a keyboard and monitor
- At startup, repeatedly hit Delete to enter BIOS at startup
- Go to… Advanced > AMD CBS > CPU Common Options > Core Performance Boost > Disabled
- Then F4 to save & exit
Ok, will try that. Thank you very much!
Is it OK to turn it off at night? That’s when it’s most annoying.
If you’re sleeping next to it, I’m guessing this is not an important multi-purpose server that your whole family is using 24/7 and you’re probably just using it to send and confirm bitcoin transactions… in which case, while these servers are designed to be always on… it would be fine to turn it off at night if your the only user. You’d do this via the options at the very end of the System menu.
Yup, that is what I have been doing. Absolutely not an ideal solution, and it seems like being able to control the fan with some kind of buffer time would be a desirable feature. Right now the fan comes on and off like a monkey on crack. Frenetic. Makes no sense, and cannot possibly be related to actual temperature spikes.
even with doing this?
Restart the server connected to a keyboard and monitor At startup, repeatedly hit Delete to enter BIOS at startup Go to… Advanced > AMD CBS > CPU Common Options > Core Performance Boost > Disabled Then F4 to save & exit