Heracles wrote:
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Hi All,
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.
just replace the fan, a 3 pin fan will work on a 4 pin header, the 4th
pin is for varying the fan speed, but it'll fallback onto an alternate
method for the 3 pin version typically.
They are usually just a heat pipe system, there is nothing to them, they
just use the pipes to move the heat from the CPU to the heat sink
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.
you would likely need to make a new xorg.conf to suit the new machine.
depending on the version of slack your running you might need new
drivers too.
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.
Sorry for the long post
Heracles
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