I bought a HP Proliant DL380P gen8 server a few days ago. It was nice and quiet before i put in a network card. Then it sounded like a vacuum cleaner. I took out the network card. It was quiet again. I put in a LSI SAS card. It sounded like a vacuum cleaner again. If i put in a non HP SSD or hard drive ILO believes the drive is getting overheated. Then it turns up the fans. If it cant get the temperature out of some hardware it turns up the fans. When i was looking for a solution for this i saw that HPs reply is that this doesnt happen if you use HP parts. My Dell poweredge server handles this much better. If it detects a card in a PCIe slot it increases fan speeds a little.
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