The issue at hand is a fan that became noisy (a consistent whine) after changing memory. Looking for suggestions if it is a BIOS issue or if it is coincidental with the memory change.
Background:
I have an ACER Veriton VX4618-G UI5240W desktop, and it has performed reasonably well for the 2 1/2 years I've owned it. But physical memory usage has been running between 70-80% pretty consistently. It is running Windows 7 Pro.
Not realizing the OS limitation on memory, which I've since come to understand, I bought and installed new memory on this machine. It came with 4GB, and (dummy me) I installed 16GB (4GB in each of the four slots). As soon as I turned on the machine, Windows 7 Pro started up just fine, but the fan is making loud, consistent noise. I've re-installed the original memory (2 x 2GB), and the noise remains. I've cleaned it, and never heard anything like this...is it a coincidence or is there a BIOS setting that got tweaked by the new memory, that I might try fixing?
ANY help or suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you.
Background:
I have an ACER Veriton VX4618-G UI5240W desktop, and it has performed reasonably well for the 2 1/2 years I've owned it. But physical memory usage has been running between 70-80% pretty consistently. It is running Windows 7 Pro.
Not realizing the OS limitation on memory, which I've since come to understand, I bought and installed new memory on this machine. It came with 4GB, and (dummy me) I installed 16GB (4GB in each of the four slots). As soon as I turned on the machine, Windows 7 Pro started up just fine, but the fan is making loud, consistent noise. I've re-installed the original memory (2 x 2GB), and the noise remains. I've cleaned it, and never heard anything like this...is it a coincidence or is there a BIOS setting that got tweaked by the new memory, that I might try fixing?
ANY help or suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you.
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