Steve Shockley wrote:
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> My firwall had a hardware failure, so I threw the drive into a Dell 
> PowerEdge 650.  That worked fine, but now I can hear the fans 
> screaming down the hall through a closed door.  Other than hardware 
> changes (like a resistor or a non-1U server), is there anything I can 
> do to shut this machine up?  Does anyone know if the fans in this 
> machine would idle down on a "supported" OS?
>
> It's running 4.6, FWIW.
>

We have a poweredge 700 tower running 4.2 and the bios takes care of the 
big fan it has. The same is true for a 1900 tower with 4.5.

You should check the bios, maybe something like "automatic fan control" 
is disabled.