please help, pc about to fry - cpu fan not working

[egg]

Hi,

I have a ASUS K7V MB, with Athlon 700.

In the last weeks my CPU Fan became quite noisy and slow.. mainly because it was quite dirty (and old).

Yesterday it stopped altogether!!!

So, today I bought a replacement fan, installed it etc.. but it's acting as though it were completly dead. Not spinning at all. Nothing.

I can smell that the PC is getting hot.. I'm sure that'll fry soon :-(

there's 3 different power sockets on my board... cpu_fan, f_fan and pwr fan. I tried them all - cpu_fan as the main one... but no luck!!

Any ideas? without a clipon CPU fan working.. I'm screwed! My pc will die.. right?!

 

[4Ryan6]

You may have gotten a bad fan, or you could have a bad fan header on the M/B, either way don't mess around with the CPUs cooling get the problem solved, or you'll loose the CPU and possibly the M/B also. Ryan




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