GA-K8NS Ultra-939 and Smart Fan Control Problem

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<phughes200@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought the GA-K8NS Ultra-939 along with an Athalon 64 3200+ in a
> retail box (standard AMD fan). When I hooked everything up, the CPU fan
> stopped running while I was setting up the inital bios settings. The
> CPU fan fail alarm immediately went off. I then turned the smart fan
> control off to avoid frying my CPU and everything appears to work. My
> question is according to the manual (yes I did read it) the fan speed
> is reduced if the temperature is lower then 40 c. I assume reduce means
> it is still running not stopped. Is this normal? Needless to say, I
> didn't wait for the cpu to haet up to see if it start running again.
> Other than that, the board seems fine. I would still like to use this
> feature if it actually works.
>