On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 11:33:55AM -0700, Jinsong Zhao wrote: > > One annoying thing is that the fan is always on, making the room very > noisy. Before buying an ATX, is it possible to turn off the fan on a > command line?
Which fan? Most modern systems have at least 2 fans and sometimes 4 or more. You have/may have the following: Power supply fan cpu fan case fan video card fan (yech) The solution to the first three is to buy high quality quiet components to begin with. PC Power & Cooling makes very quiet power supply and cpu fans that you should consider. The solution to the forth is not to buy a video card that needs a fan. As for turning the fans on & off, about the only ones you have much hope to control are the cpu and case fans. The fans and motherboard will need to have the newer 3 wire connectors (rather than just using a drive power connector). You will also need a motherboard/chipset that is supported. There is a Linux hardware monitor project dealing with this but I don't have the link handy at the moment. If noone else comes up with the link I'll dig it up. -- Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ray AT sonictech DOT net
