-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 June 2003 10:40 pm, Michael Sacco wrote:
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?
I've got a water cooled system that did that (BIOS complained that the CPU fan was not running) when I first set it up. There is a setting in my BIOS config that turns this warning off. (If I don't turn the warning system off the computer shuts down automatically, safe but not terribly convenient.) My guess is that your solution will work fine. You didn't say how you diagnosed that the cpu fan header was bad, if you're not sure then you could get another fan (they're cheap) and try plugging it into the original header. Panaflo fans come highly recommended. have a good evening - -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/UGjBwgxlylUsJARAiJ5AJ458kDFyn8IS8igCBlqQ3fqGoXxjwCfctKi w9hgbDnJ0Jrth1sAnpKuu40= =6TMQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----