I recently purchased a used supermicro 36 bay server (SV-6047R-E1R36N) and the front backplane has a fairly noticable high pitched noise/coil whine when running, and unfortunately since this is going to be set up in a living space it's something I will need to resolve.
I've tried swapping out the PSU and tried different power connectors (I'm actually doing some modifications to have a quiet server, so that involved switching to a consumer PSU and replacing the fans) but it hasn't had any impact, so think I've isolated the issue to the backplane.
Are there any steps I can take to fix this, apart from just trying to find a replacement part? It seems as if replacing the backplane will end up costing near what I paid for the server itself! So interested to know how others would go about solving this.
I've tried swapping out the PSU and tried different power connectors (I'm actually doing some modifications to have a quiet server, so that involved switching to a consumer PSU and replacing the fans) but it hasn't had any impact, so think I've isolated the issue to the backplane.
Are there any steps I can take to fix this, apart from just trying to find a replacement part? It seems as if replacing the backplane will end up costing near what I paid for the server itself! So interested to know how others would go about solving this.