DEC Alphaserver 4100 CPU fans

Richard Loken rlloken at telus.net
Tue Jun 9 23:53:52 CDT 2020


So gentlemen, my Alphaserver 4100 shut itself down with a sad announcement
about a dead CPU fan.  I have a parts mule which has donated a CPU fan a
couple years ago and I can take the second and last CPU fan from there but
then I have no more fans.

Can the CPU fan be obtained?  Can they be rebuilt?

The 4100 has a series of fans between the 3 power supply slots and the
main backplane which I found could not be easily obtained so I tore them
all apart and replaced the bearings with good results but I suspect that
the lttle CPU fans will not respond so well to attempts at repair.
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   Athabasca, Alberta Canada       : our heads are naked!"
   ** rlloken at telus.net **         :    - Arthur Black


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