Shallax, gentoox developer, has a couple really good utilities to control the hardware, including a utility to quiet the fan down from 20% all the way to 100%... you could play with it and see if thats whats causing the noise. The fan is hands down the loudest component of the xbox.
Vic Ben Dash wrote: >I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little >noisy and eventually I'll replace it with a quieter >one, however, I had no idea that the hard drive was a >noise problem. Obviously I can't hear anything above >the noise of the fan currently. If the hard drive >becomes a problem I'll probably replace it with a >seagate barracuda since I've had good experiences with >them and find them to be completely silent. > >I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to >xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well you >box was working with just the 64MB, or are you merely >talking about your future plans. > >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash >>wrote: >> >> >>>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard >>>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file >>> >>> >>on >> >> >>>hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native >>> >>> >>xBox >> >> >>>functions. >>> >>> >>If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps >>with the help of >>additional installed RAM) then I could shut down the >>drive, gaining a >>50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from >>the XBox isn't a >>problem when playing games since they tend to be >>loud anyway, but it's >>a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet >>recording. >> >>I figure having a slow swap would make navigating >>the menus painful and >>would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm >>actually watching >>TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going >>on. >> >>I was hoping someone on here would have already >>tried it and could tell >>me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't >>work so I don't spend >>a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the >>wheel. >> >> >> >>>_______________________________________________ >>> >>> >>mythtv-users mailing list >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >> >> >> >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! Music Unlimited >Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. >http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users