i think the more power you get in the cpu the louder the fans are. thats what people tell me. how many fans does it have? i thought i read once it had 3 fans. all fans make noise though. just like a fan in the house does.
i notice they spin faster though then my old pc i guess thats why they buzz
i have a 4300

I read else where that Dell is aware of this problem and that they are working on it. It sounds like a loose shroud at the cpu or the fan is loose on the case. Open the case, start the pc and touch the shroud to see if that is the cause. Whatever it is it is probably a simple solution.

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Hi,
I also have a new 8200 with the loud fan problem. After investigating myself, it seems to me the problem is with the green duct that draws the air from the processor as well as the fan shroud. The green duct acts like a megaphone for any amount of vibration from the fan and I believe is also is a contributing factor. A screw mounted fan would be better than this quick-clip thing. I came up with a little fix of my own until Dell comes up with a solution. Its kinda silly, but I used what I had available and my fan runs quiet as a church mouse now. The hard drive is actually louder than the fan now and it's pretty quiet itself.

Hi All,
Include me in the "love my 8200, but can't stand the fan noise"group. Care to share your "home remedy" until Dell gets a fix?? I've tried electrical tape around the green shroud, to no avail. The constant hum, with the up and down ramping is driving me nuts......

Thanks

I'm getting crazy, too. I'm going to get a bad headache if this is not going to be fixed somehow. Before starting playing around.... did you find the solution? I will also contact Dell today. If there is no workaround for this I'll send them back the 8200. A great PC is not a great help if it makes such a great noise making me unable to concentrate :-)
tdyrgrahams wrote:

before i start.... if you do it you do it at your own risk, I'm not going to take any responsabilities if you damage your dimension :-)

ZERO: turn PC off and UNPLUG the electricity cables

FIRST: open the case

SECOND: do you see the green plastic covering the CPU? well, take it out from the case (no screws needed.

THIRD: to make it easier, unplug the electricity cable of the cooler from the motherboard

FORTH: now you have the cooler inclusive green part in your hands. you can easily divide the black cooler part and the green plastic. Do not use any force, no screws... just find the right position and separate the 2 parts

FIFTH: now you have only the green plastic in your hands. to reduce or even eliminate those vibrations you have to put onto the boarders (where the green part will touch the black cooler) something soft, f.eg. some adhesive tape. be aware NOT to cover the two holes which are in fact the mechanism to hold the green part + cooler together.

you are done! plug in again the electricity cable of the cooler, of the pc... and should you go on hearing the noise go back to point 5!

Thank you for the proposed fix to the 8200 noise problem. If I understand the fix, I run the risk of voiding my warranty. It irritates me that I purchase a top of the line machine, and the first thing I gotta do is repair it with duct tape. I will try it if Dell authorized it, but I definitely do not want to void the warranty.

To be honest, the few bucks in shipping I will eat is not going to change my life. So, I suppose Dell is going to have to come up with a fix (or authorize me to try the fix), or they will get this machine back. Also, I really would like someone else (who is going to put up with it anyway) to try it out next and see if it is a good fix for all. I have an e-mail from support, and I will say that so far Dell support is terrific, they just don't have a fix for this issue.

My 4300 also has the loud fan as described. I hope Dell comes up with a fix for all of us soon. This is very annoying.

It's not the least of my annoyances with this machine, however. It crashed within 10 minutes from the first time I booted it. I constantly get "scripting errors" with offers to use a debugger as well as freezes in Explorer after a message typically like:

"!explore has caused an error in Kernall32.DLL. !Explore will now close."

I get several of these a day with different DLL's referred to.

I am not impressed with this machine.

I'm also getting out of memory messages -- this with 383 Mb installed and just a few common apps open.

I don't have time to search for support and I shudder to think of sending it back after all the time I've invested moving files from my old computer over to this one.

Please let us know what your fix was.

Thanks!

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Received Computer 10/25
On-Site Fan Replacement 10/26
New Fan Shroud coming tomorrow.
After I install, I will wait along with everyone else for the real fix. I am enjoying my new motor boat....

I got me some ear plugs




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