On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 05:50:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A while back I commented that the read case fan had failed. > One of the things I did yesterday was to swap the front and rear case > fans to see if the fan was operational or not. It turns out that the > fan is 100% operational...
I assume the old front fan that is the new rear fan didn't spin up. > I think the motherboard isn't suppling power to the back case fan > connector. I checked the motherboard manual and there is no BIOS option > which may do a temperature based or power conservation stop of the fan > is on. It's likely dead, abit bp6's are famous for this, no idea what kind of motherboard this is. > Another defect appears that the SMBus chips can not read the > CPU1 Fan speed... I connected one of the case fans (which are > known to report RPM information) to the CPU fan connectors... and > while they spin there is no RPM information available. Is the cpu1 fan connector connected to a fan with 3 wires? 2 wire fans will spin but not show rpm. > - Someone with electrical skills want to test out the three pin > fan connector to figure out what is going wrong? I'm betting on a short. > - Any suggestions on how to get the fan spinning? (1) Get an adapter from the standard 4 pin power supply to whatever the fan takes. > - Has anyone else seen motherboards fail to spin fans like this? Common on abit's, most often when using a higher performance (more power hungry) fan, or when plugging/unplugging fans while the machine is on. -- Bill Broadley Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics UC Davis _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
