On Tuesday 12 January 2010 09:00:05 [email protected] wrote: > I have a two part problem at the moment related to mate who has a > shuttle computer which seems to have a liquid based cooler for the > processor. Unfortunately the fan for this cooling system has failed and > so the system won't start. > The fan has a four pin connector that goes to the motherboard and must > get some feedback from this during POST. > We have tried the distributor only to be told that they change their > system about every three months and do not keep parts for systems as old > as his (18 months old). > > 1) Does anyone know where I can get a fan with this 4 pin connector - > it looks similar to a DVD sound connector. > > 2) I have tried to get the system running on a different computer by > connecting the HDD (it is Slackware Linux based) but it errors out with > "no screens found". The techie at the company that installed the > software suggested that we change the PCI entries in xorg.conf from > 2:0:0 to 1:0:0 but this changes nothing. > I have not used Slackware since version 3.5 and have no idea what the > xorg.conf should look like. Any suggestions would be of assistance. > > NOTE: The system runs the video screens in my friend's store and runs > without a keyboard or mouse. He can log into it and edit what goes on > the screens with another workstation and going to its web page (it runs > as an internal web server with most of the code written in php) and > making the changes there.
Sounds like the standard AMD fan You can put a 3 pin connector on the 4 pins - key to stop screwups, so case, chaasis, power fan connector can be used. Many bios' allow you, with a fan, to configure no cpu fan :-) (There's a hole in my bucket ...) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
