I have an N54L that needs a new fan. Unfortunately, the link I find referenced everywhere doesn't work anymore.
From what I've been able to piece together, any 120mm fan should work as long as it stays above 300 rpm. That appears to rule out almost all Noctua fans as most of them have a 0 rpm feature. What's puzzling is that I have a fan with a min speed of 500 rpm but it seems to work only sometimes and even when it does, that doesn't last.
I already have an adapter cable to fix the proprietary pinout, but I haven't found a fan that works in PWM. Converting to a 3 pin connection ends up with a fan that's either too loud(even with a Noctua LNA) or a fan that produces weird harmonics.
The BIOS is out od date, and I've found a web archive link to the original BIOS and several unofficial BIOS, but from what I've read, none of them changes the Fan Missing! alarm or any other PWM settings.
Any suggestions for a replacement that works? I'm just using it as a TrueNAS backup target.
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I already have an adapter cable to fix the proprietary pinout, but I haven't found a fan that works in PWM. Converting to a 3 pin connection ends up with a fan that's either too loud(even with a Noctua LNA) or a fan that produces weird harmonics.
The BIOS is out od date, and I've found a web archive link to the original BIOS and several unofficial BIOS, but from what I've read, none of them changes the Fan Missing! alarm or any other PWM settings.
Any suggestions for a replacement that works? I'm just using it as a TrueNAS backup target.