Abit KG7-Raid Fan Died

[Snarfu]

The fan on the motherboard finally died after squeeling for awhile. I pulled the fan off. The case temp is 33 and the cpu temp is 38 (at idle) running 3 case fans plus the 2 in the power supply. Is it safe to run with the motherboard fan removed? If I need to replace it, are there any passive heat sink type options? If so, where?

Thanks in advance.

 

[0_Qed]

Snarfu wrote:

The fan on the motherboard finally died after squeeling for awhile. I pulled the fan off. The case temp is 33 and the cpu temp is 38 (at idle) running 3 case fans plus the 2 in the power supply. Is it safe to run with the motherboard fan removed? If I need to replace it, are there any passive heat sink type options? If so, where?

Assumed cpu fan ...

=Generally=, fans are supplied by the mobo mfgr for a reason ... newer AMD cpu chips "generally" need a fan ...

Me?
I'd suggest you find a replacement ...
run the cpu at "idle" till you fit a new one.

Fan squeels can be quieted with a drop of mineral spirit 'oil' ... lift the 'label', sewing needle 'held' 1/2_drop of oil ... drop "it"

Qed.

 

[Snarfu]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:53:15 -0400, 0_Qed wrote:

Assumed cpu fan ...

=Generally=, fans are supplied by the mobo mfgr for a reason ... newer AMD cpu chips "generally" need a fan ...

CPU fan ... heavens no! My Xp1900 would fry itself in seconds without the CPU fan.

The fan in question is on the motherboard adjacent to the CPU socket. Its referred to as AMD 761 (northbridge) system bus controller in the manual.

 

[Skid]

"Snarfu" wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:53:15 -0400, 0_Qed wrote:

Assumed cpu fan ...

=Generally=, fans are supplied by the mobo mfgr for a reason ...
newer AMD cpu chips "generally" need a fan ...

CPU fan ... heavens no! My Xp1900 would fry itself in seconds without the CPU fan.

The fan in question is on the motherboard adjacent to the CPU socket. Its referred to as AMD 761 (northbridge) system bus controller in the ...

In that case, you can run it without a fan or substitute an old 486 fan or similar. There are plenty of aftermarket chipset coolers available, both passive and active, but they would probably be overkill.

 

[TomG]

you can also peel the label up on the existing fan and give it a drop of light machine oil such as sewing machine or clock oil and it will most likely take off and run for a long time again.

 

[Snarfu]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:31:38 -0400, "TomG"
wrote:

you can also peel the label up on the existing fan and give it a drop of light machine oil such as sewing machine or clock oil and it will most likely take off and run for a long time again.

Thanks, I did try that but the fan won't power up even though it does spin freely now.

 

[TomG]

probably got so hot from a locked armature that it fried the windings...