Evening, Well, tonight my CPU fan decided to stop working. After some logical deduction, I discovered that it was the connection from the fan to the motherboard that was faulty. By hooking up the CPU fan to another connection on the motherboard I was able to use it again. When I boot, the BIOS complains that the CPU fan is not running (obviously since it is not hooked up) and asks if I should shutdown immediately. I said no, since the fan really was spinning round, and booted up linux. I've loaded sensors and have the CPU temp displayed on gkrellm. It says that it's 105.8F right now. My question is how reliable is this setup I've got going, or should I just give in and buy a new motherboard. I'm kinda tight on funds, so if this'll work, I'd rather keep it like this. I'm just concerned about blowing out my CPU. Any thoughts? Mike Sacco.