Lian Li driving me Crazy

Pilky01 · 8 Aug 2008 at 23:55

My A70 side panel is making some very annoying rattling noises.
Its driving me mental. Im afraid i might hurt it if i cant fix it soon.

Anyone else had this problem or got a way to fix it? :mad:

balls · 9 Aug 2008 at 00:02

Blue tack in the corners of the panel absorb the vibrations...

Acid_death69 · 9 Aug 2008 at 00:05

lol ive had that problem with an old case. balls has the right idea with blue tack

Pilky01 · 9 Aug 2008 at 00:06

Cheers guys i will give it a try

embalse · 9 Aug 2008 at 13:10

balls said:
Blue tack in the corners of the panel absorb the vibrations...

Nice tip!

-Exodus- · 9 Aug 2008 at 13:19

i'd also put those little felt pads on the feet of the case to further reduce vibrations and noise

Tetsu · 9 Aug 2008 at 13:28

You'd have thought lian li would have sorted this by now. For a company that has been producing case for 20 odd years its a little lame. I know other companies suffer from this as well, so i'm not just picking on lain li

int · 9 Aug 2008 at 13:33

Just bend the clips in slightly, giving a tighter fit. May take a little more effort pulling the panels off but you don't have blutac everywhere

C64 · 9 Aug 2008 at 17:52

bungee mod the hard drives with sewing machine elastic or similar

-Exodus- · 9 Aug 2008 at 19:32

mine used to do this, but as my case has got more full it has seemed to stop :confused:

dr. sarf · 9 Aug 2008 at 19:36

Every Lian Li I've built in has done this - annoying to build in!
Not a lot you can do really other than try and dampen the sound.

pieman109 · 9 Aug 2008 at 21:08

I finally gave up on my PC-7 and its now the kid's pc case. I have a large wooden desk with a compartment for the case and being wood, the vibrations were horrendous, you could even stop the noise by resting your elbow on the desk! still noisy though and tried everything I could think of, soft feet, rubber grommets, quiet fans, etc, nothing worked. Got an antec sonnata midi case and voila, silence. Built like a tank and heavy but QUIET, oh the bliss.

EsaT · 9 Aug 2008 at 21:22

A70 has soft mounting for HDDs so either some drive is exceptional vibrating roller, rubber grommets are too hard or case fan is bad. (just stop case fans one by one for seeing is there difference)

balls said:
Blue tack in the corners of the panel absorb the vibrations...

It exactly won't absorb vibration but takes away slack and prevents loose rattling.

-Exodus- said:
mine used to do this, but as my case has got more full it has seemed to stop

Increasing mass lowers resonance frequency and might lower it below frequency of vibration source. (also with same energy heavier object vibrates less)
Or then vibration was caused by fan which has now worn enough to not vibrate.