Heatsink Fan

[tom2k7]

Hi last week i snapped a fin of my heatsink fan and on that fan the cables are red,yellow and black so i brought a replacement fan the cables are on that one are red, white and black i plugged it in and set it up turned on the pc only to hear it beep at me and say processor fan not found and i had to turn the pc off please help me.

[tom2k7]

no nice person going to help me on this one then?

[Giblet Plus!]

I'm confused. :confused:

Does the fan spin still? The new fan might just not support fan monitoring. If it spins fine, turn off fan monitoring in the bios. :D

[2penguins]

The wire color doesn't matter, there are cheap 3 wire fans that are sold to deceive. They are really 2 wire fans and the monitor doesn't receive a signal for them.

You may have one of those, or you may just have a bad fan. the only way to really tell is to use a different fan.

[Martingi]

maybe u didn't plug it into the right place on the motherboard.
reply asap

[tom2k7]

i have plugged it into the right place the same place as where the old fan was and the fan does spin and it does tell me the fans rpm when i use it as a case fan please help.

[2penguins]

Do you know the rated rpm of the case fan you are using?
Some of them only turn 2800 RPMs or less if that's the case then there's a posibility your Systems Bios has a minimum setting for the cooler fan speed.

Have a look at your MB manual and see if there is such a setting or if the fan monitor can be disabled by resetting your CMOS.

If you still have problems, post your MB model here and I'll check for you.


Cheers.