You think 88 c is hot? I've been there

Most likely the fan was sucking too much juice, and burned out the connector on the motherboard.
Let me guess...Delta?



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Get one of those 3 pin to 4pin molEx adapters and use one of the spare HDD power plugs instead, should have plenty with that enermax. That fan is probably like mentioned above drawing to much power for the motherboard to handle.

If you still want rpm monitoring, pull the yellow wire out and using another female 3 pin plug, wire it to the corresponding position and wack it back on the M/B. CAREFULLY.

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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by scotty3303 on 09/07/01 08:14 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

I'm so glad my cpu didn't turn into a 120$ keychain or something. But is this like common knowledge? How come nobody told me to wire the delta fan to the psu when I got it?

I am not sure but I think it's a delta. It comes with the global win fop 38 and it's supposed to be 6800rpm. It only works at 5800-6000 on my epox.
say, does this sh!t happen to other motherboards too, like Asus or Abit?

Hey amdmeltdoofus, wheres the puddle of melted silica you always promise in this situation. LOL

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its happend to other people, but most boards do give a rating and a warning about the fan headers in the manual, I have a kt7a raid and had a delta running on it (also plugged case fans into the headers), I think they should come with a molex, I mean, if you dont know, then its quite normal to plug the supplied connector into the "correct" connector.

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This is hilarious. The fan header that was blown by the delta fan is now working again. It's like a pc healing itself. I have screenshots of viahm running my cpu fan at 163k rpm. Right, my order of a jet nuclear fueled fan has arrived, finally.

Fugger, would you please knock it off!!!
Yes, It is a Delta. You must not have read the directions. Globalwin recommends that you never connect the fan to the motherboard. Go buy an adapter for the 12 volt connection and you will not have a problem.

I almost made the same mistake.

I have a delta fan plugged directly into my Epox 8K7A+ and I have absolutely no problems, getting 6826 RPMs as well.
The fan is on a swiftech mc370 heat sink with a 1.4 Tbird @ 1575 MHz. my temps are 49-55 degrees celsius (49 being idle 55 being 6+ hours of seti@home) and the suprising thing is I run rock stable. Right now my uptime is 2d 21h 38m 36s, this motherboard is simply amazing.

It happened to my old FIC sd-11. That also had a delta fan.

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