Fan died on NF7 - Replace?

The chipset fan on my Abit NF7 died a couple of weeks ago. I'm running a
mobile Barton 2500+ at 2.34ghz. How critical is this fan, and are negative
consequences likely if I do not replace it?
Thank you,

jake

 

it's cruicial, don';t you have reboots all the time?

my MB didn';t boot up correctly with fsb at 200MHz and without the fan

i've got
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=71&code=014
and it is recommended by the users

if u have water cooling system it is important to make the air inside the
case move a little bit so that this cooler won't get high temp, so instal
some slow-rotating fan

btw if u have zalman on CPU u will have to bend a little bit the blue
zalman, nothing difficult, nothing u should be affraid of. it really works !

btw 2 remember the northbridge is concave so pul a LOT i mean A LOT of
thermal paste (write ) removing the dots and nospam
if u have any difficulties
my system with a little of thermal p. rebooted every few minutes and memtest
as long as prime got errors at 200MHz

 

mine stopped working, so had a look, and theres 2 tiny screws that, if you
undo them, allows you to pull out the fan, turn the fan over and put a
couple of drops of machine oil in the bearing.
This totally sorted out my fan and its running a treat again
HTH
Helinut

 

so did mine
so did i
but after a month or two it stopped again so i bought zalman...

CJ