Hi Everyone,
I've just bought a 40Gb (UK version) from my local Game store, primarily for the blue-ray. Set the whole thing up, it has plenty of space and is on a shelf of it's own in my media center. Everything was ok until we came to watch a blue-ray (Die Hard 4.0 to be precise), 15 mins into the film the thing sounded like it was about to take off! To give an indication as to the noise level increae - before the fans my surround sound was on 14 which was comfortable for dialogue, when the fans came on it had to be cranked up to 20 to hear dialogue! all well and good until it wasn't someone speaking then it was way too loud to listen to.
Anyway, did a bit more experimenting and found it didn't matter what it was doing (even idle) after 10-15 mins the fans kicked in and didn't go back down. I took the unit back to the Game store and they put it on test - guess what - no a whisper from the fans. The only difference was the temperature - it was freezing where they tested the unit. They basically said there was nothing they could, or would be prepared, to do. I purchased one of their additional fan units to see if that would help - it didn't.
When I got back I did a bit more experimenting, I put my unit in the window and opened the window. The fan didn't kick in at all, so I closed the window and after 10 mins the fans came on, opened the window and the fans stepped down.
Bascially I've come to the conclusion that unless I can get a stream of cold air into the unit the fans will always kick in - this is a bit of a problem in my lounge.
I'm going to try sony to see if they have any suggestions - but I suspect I will have to get used to the noise, and my neighbours will have to get used to loud movies :P
I'll update if I get anything from Sony - or if I find a suitable cooling system.
N
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