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More info?)
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
"Crazy John" <dont@likespam.pl> wrote in message
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> U¿ytkownik "Jake" <jake@yahoo.com> napisa³:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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 c.r.azy.john@nospam.wp.pl) 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
>