jandarsun8

My old Epox AMD board died this weekend which was being used for my server. Not entirely sure what went wrong however it's not booting up. Took the PS out of it, tested in another machine, works fine. Took the other machines PS and popped in the server, no go. Not even network lights on the mb. Took out all of the memory chips along with all the drives and expansion cards, nothing. No beeps, nothing.

So as a replacement, I have my old main box. It's got a 650 watt PS in it, AMD 3200+ Barton (400mzh fsb) cpu in it, 4 gigs of ram on a ABIT KW7 board. The video card will get replaced with something less powerfull (X1950 Pro AGP) to an old 4 meg PCI card as it's going as a file server. My problem is the CPU fan... It's loud and I can't turn the speed down. It's got an old Thermaltake Volcano 7 on it and the speed control broke on it a couple of months after I originally bought it. The Epox CPU fan won't work, it's slated for a 2000+ cpu and the 1800+ CPU in it won't run on the Abit board because of the FSB.

So the way I see it, I've got a couple of options. One, find a CPU fan that's quiter for the 3200+ chip and move everything into the new box, find a mb replacement for the old system or say screw it and get a whole new one which is not really going to happen.

Any suggestions on an old AMD Socket A cooler for a Barton 3200+ chip that is quiet and works ok?

MB's, I guess I can look on E-Bay and look around for something used if I end up going that route.

Server setup was a Epox 1800+ CPU, 2 gig ram, 2x 20 gig OS drives mirrored, 4x 160 gig Seagate drives in a Raid 5 setup using a PCI raid controller card, running Win Serv 2003. Been running fine like this for the last three years and finally just said "no more" I think.

Any thoughts, pointers on what I didn't check, or suggestions? Even bad ones?

I do realize that I'm running my server on all old equipment but budget is very limited to what I can work with right now so looking for the cheapest solution to get by until I can actually afford to get a real server.

Thanks,
Jand

jandarsun8

Anyone have any ideas on a good quiet old socket a cooler? Could really use some suggestions.