I appologize in advance if this post should really be placed in the motherboard section because I have a sneaking suspicion that it might belong there but here goes....
I finished my new rig a week or so ago and I'm not sure if everyone experiences set-backs or frustrations but I need help to dicerne this one. When I cold boot my machine the fan on the HSF comes on and then promptly shuts off again. It goes through the bios screen and then returns an error.
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CPU fan error!!!
hit f1 to continue
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Now after I hit F1 it goes right top windows but the fan still doesn't turn on. Once the login page loads I hit restart ASAP as to not let the CPU heat up too much. Most of the time after I restart from windows in the beginning it starts normally the next time. After it is running and I restart everything behaves really normally and the fan comes on each time like it is suppose to.
Questions arise...
1. Could this be something in the hardware on the MB itself causing this?
2. Is this perhaps a malfunctioning BIOS version?
(I hope not because I don't believe they have an upgrade for the Bios on this board yet)
3. Is there any way that it could actually be the HSF causing this? ( I doubt this because it works perfectly when restarting from windows)
The MB is an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe and I'm running a Zalman 7000-CuLed. The rest you can gather from my siggy.
Please help! This sort of behavior cannot be tolerated. ROFL... :frown:
<font color=green>AMD 64 3700+
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
CORSAIR XMS (1gb) PC-3200
Gigabyte GF 6800gt 256mb
Audigy 2 ZS
2_36.7gb Raptors/Raid 0
Tt 480 watt PSU</font color=green>
I finished my new rig a week or so ago and I'm not sure if everyone experiences set-backs or frustrations but I need help to dicerne this one. When I cold boot my machine the fan on the HSF comes on and then promptly shuts off again. It goes through the bios screen and then returns an error.
----------------------
CPU fan error!!!
hit f1 to continue
----------------------
Now after I hit F1 it goes right top windows but the fan still doesn't turn on. Once the login page loads I hit restart ASAP as to not let the CPU heat up too much. Most of the time after I restart from windows in the beginning it starts normally the next time. After it is running and I restart everything behaves really normally and the fan comes on each time like it is suppose to.
Questions arise...
1. Could this be something in the hardware on the MB itself causing this?
2. Is this perhaps a malfunctioning BIOS version?
(I hope not because I don't believe they have an upgrade for the Bios on this board yet)
3. Is there any way that it could actually be the HSF causing this? ( I doubt this because it works perfectly when restarting from windows)
The MB is an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe and I'm running a Zalman 7000-CuLed. The rest you can gather from my siggy.
Please help! This sort of behavior cannot be tolerated. ROFL... :frown:
<font color=green>AMD 64 3700+
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
CORSAIR XMS (1gb) PC-3200
Gigabyte GF 6800gt 256mb
Audigy 2 ZS
2_36.7gb Raptors/Raid 0
Tt 480 watt PSU</font color=green>