Hello,
I had an old CPU fan that gathered dust, and died on me during the summer ( it just stopped spinning because it was old ). I had the interior of my case cleaned out with air while my components were still inside, so everything got cleaned up. I oiled up the old CPU fan, and it restarted working normally for a while, but would eventually stop again and would start causing the same issue I'm about to discuss. So I decided to buy a new CPU fan. I went out and bought a cheap CPU fan.
It starts up well, and does its job for the most part. However, at some random point, it just stops spinning, and I don't understand why. After the fan stops spinning, the cpu heats up enough to the point where my PC turns off. If I immediately retry to open my computer, the fan starts as usual, but quickly turns off (can't even get to my home page), and I decide to close my computer before it overheats again. I need to wait for it to cool off before I can reopen my PC and hope that it doesn't stop spinning. My question is: why does my CPU fan stop spinning? I tried for the past few weeks to find a similar story, but I can't arrive to a specific conclusion. How can I know whether it's the CPU fan at fault, or my motherboard or even the CPU?
What's weird here is also that I need to wait for the computer to cool off before it restarts spinning for a longer period of time. So is it possible for the CPU fan to just give up when CPU is under a big load?
I have had this PC since 2011 or 2012, I can't say that it's too outdated.. Oh, and I also tried plugging the CPU fan to Channel 1 and 3 instead of channel 2 designed for cpu fan on the motherboard, but they won't even start on those channels. All other fans keep spinning.
What would you suggest?
Thank you so much!
I had an old CPU fan that gathered dust, and died on me during the summer ( it just stopped spinning because it was old ). I had the interior of my case cleaned out with air while my components were still inside, so everything got cleaned up. I oiled up the old CPU fan, and it restarted working normally for a while, but would eventually stop again and would start causing the same issue I'm about to discuss. So I decided to buy a new CPU fan. I went out and bought a cheap CPU fan.
It starts up well, and does its job for the most part. However, at some random point, it just stops spinning, and I don't understand why. After the fan stops spinning, the cpu heats up enough to the point where my PC turns off. If I immediately retry to open my computer, the fan starts as usual, but quickly turns off (can't even get to my home page), and I decide to close my computer before it overheats again. I need to wait for it to cool off before I can reopen my PC and hope that it doesn't stop spinning. My question is: why does my CPU fan stop spinning? I tried for the past few weeks to find a similar story, but I can't arrive to a specific conclusion. How can I know whether it's the CPU fan at fault, or my motherboard or even the CPU?
What's weird here is also that I need to wait for the computer to cool off before it restarts spinning for a longer period of time. So is it possible for the CPU fan to just give up when CPU is under a big load?
I have had this PC since 2011 or 2012, I can't say that it's too outdated.. Oh, and I also tried plugging the CPU fan to Channel 1 and 3 instead of channel 2 designed for cpu fan on the motherboard, but they won't even start on those channels. All other fans keep spinning.
What would you suggest?
Thank you so much!