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Dell server: Fans race daily
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We have a Dell R720 server that has been in production for about a year. Our problem is that the internal fans go into high gear every day at the same time for about 5 minutes. We have run the Dell SUU to upgrade baseband management, iDRAC, etc., with no change. Is there some maintenance setting that we're missing that is causing this? Out organization deploys dozens of servers a year, and this is the only one that has this problem.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
We have a Dell R720 server that has been in production for about a year. Our problem is that the internal fans go into high gear every day at the same time for about 5 minutes. We have run the Dell SUU to upgrade baseband management, iDRAC, etc., with no change. Is there some maintenance setting that we're missing that is causing this? Out organization deploys dozens of servers a year, and this is the only one that has this problem.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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It is definitely unusual that the issue happens at the same time every day and only for a few minutes. I'd be inclined to run a thermal monitor program that records CPU temperatures. Take a couple of days worth of data, and if it's a thermal spike then run a task monitor to see if anything unusual is going on at that time per DanCh99's comment re CPU usage.
I'd also suggest to check for scheduled tasks as mentioned above, and look at the eventlogs. There must be something running at that time that uses a lot of the server's resources.
What Anti Virus? Symantec likes to do a quick scan every day at the same time if not disabled.
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No scheduled tasks in Windows. Webroot for AV, but many real-time functions are disabled since the server is a hyper-v host.
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New MB on the way from Dell.
Thanks for the update and I was happy to assist.