Two months ago I bought a cheap, basic PC for my mom, it does fine job for her requirements.
As it is, cheap PCs come with cheap PSU, it's one of those generic Chinese things with domestic brand name slap on it. The thing is, doing startup, cold boot to be precise, its fan produce low grinding noise for a minute or so, I've checked it, and it is the PSU fan, so I know the sound is its bearing. After a minute that sound goes away and fan works smooth for the whole day.
Question is, is it a normal behavior for those cheap PSU with cheap fans to sound that way until it warms up or it is the sound of upcoming fan failure? Can I ignore it for the time being or should it be replaced asap?
Btw, I know the cheap PSUs are not the thing that PC community like to give a pass, but before this one my parents had two office desktops with those low price PSUs and they worked for 5+ years without problems.
As it is, cheap PCs come with cheap PSU, it's one of those generic Chinese things with domestic brand name slap on it. The thing is, doing startup, cold boot to be precise, its fan produce low grinding noise for a minute or so, I've checked it, and it is the PSU fan, so I know the sound is its bearing. After a minute that sound goes away and fan works smooth for the whole day.
Question is, is it a normal behavior for those cheap PSU with cheap fans to sound that way until it warms up or it is the sound of upcoming fan failure? Can I ignore it for the time being or should it be replaced asap?
Btw, I know the cheap PSUs are not the thing that PC community like to give a pass, but before this one my parents had two office desktops with those low price PSUs and they worked for 5+ years without problems.