Re: Is my computer about to blow up?

by Basil on Sat 21 Nov 2009, 03:35

JKLever wrote:I've been googling it to death, updated the bios & cleaned it out - think i'm going to have to get someone in...

Good luck with that - had five engineers out in two weeks!

by buckSH on Sat 21 Nov 2009, 03:39

JKLever wrote:I've been googling it to death, updated the bios & cleaned it out - think i'm going to have to get someone in...

Is you fan connector 3-pin or 4-pin ?

by JKLever on Sat 21 Nov 2009, 03:44

I didn't look that closely. It was traumatic enough opening up the sides of the PC FFS!

by buckSH on Sat 21 Nov 2009, 03:47

when you opened up your PC, look at the power connector of the fan.

It is a wire coming out of the fan case and connected to the motherboard.

can you open up the sides of the PC and take a pic and post it here ?

by JKLever on Sat 21 Nov 2009, 03:50

Can't tell and don't have my digital cam working atm either but my pc is identical to this one...

No.4 (No. 6 from the back view) is the fan going all stupid one me....

by buckSH on Sat 21 Nov 2009, 03:57

those seem to be cooler master case fans. In al likelyhood that is a 3-pin fan.

I suggest you call in a tech and ask him to remove that fan.
there is a side panel fan which will more than suffice.

p.s. you have another option of installing a cooler master 4-pin case fan which you will be able to control through the motherboard bios. It's slightly more expensive than the 3-pin fans. The 4th pin is the software controller for the fan.