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NF7-S Northbridge fan
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my northbridge fan hasnt worked since i bought the board, yet the system runs nice and stable. but summer is here, and heat is becoming a worry, so i attempted to see what was wrong with it. turns out, the heatsink is too tightly screwed on, preventing the fan from moving. ive tried and tried, but for the life of me i cant get the bugger off. how do the little white pegs come off? do i need to remove the mobo? |
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NF7-S Northbridge fan
On 12 Jan 2006 20:05:15 -0800, "Vertigo" wrote:
hello, my northbridge fan hasnt worked since i bought the board, yet the system runs nice and stable. but summer is here, and heat is becoming a worry, so i attempted to see what was wrong with it. turns out, the heatsink is too tightly screwed on, preventing the fan from moving. ive tried and tried, but for the life of me i cant get the bugger off. how do the little white pegs come off? do i need to remove the mobo? You have to pull the board then squeeze the tips of the white plugs on the back of the board and push them thru. You can buy a fanless heatsink Zalman ZM-NB32J Aluminum Heatsink for about $5 + shipping from www.directron.com. Clean the top of the chipset with alcohol , apply new thermal paste and install the new heatsink. You can install it with the board in place. As long as you have decent case air flow, it works as well as the original and it has no fan to contribute to the racket. Lenster --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You know you've been on the computer too long when... You start double clicking the TV remote! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remove YourNightgown to reply by email |
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NF7-S Northbridge fan
On 12 Jan 2006 20:05:15 -0800, "Vertigo" wrote:
hello, my northbridge fan hasnt worked since i bought the board, yet the system runs nice and stable. but summer is here, and heat is becoming a worry, so i attempted to see what was wrong with it. turns out, the heatsink is too tightly screwed on, preventing the fan from moving. ive tried and tried, but for the life of me i cant get the bugger off. how do the little white pegs come off? do i need to remove the mobo? You have to pull the board then squeeze the tips of the white plugs on the back of the board and push them thru. You can buy a fanless heatsink Zalman ZM-NB32J Aluminum Heatsink for about $5 + shipping from www.directron.com. Clean the top of the chipset with alcohol , apply new thermal paste and install the new heatsink. You can install it with the board in place. As long as you have decent case air flow, it works as well as the original and it has no fan to contribute to the racket. Lenster You can always cut the top off the pins with a pair of cutters and push them through, assuming of course you have a pair to put back in, the Zalman chipset cooler comes with replacement pins, and if in the UK Maplins also sell them. A lot easier than removing the mobo. I hate noisy systems and have gone to much trouble to make it very quiet and at the same time cool running, I run a Nforce4 chipset which gets really hot. I tried the Zalman -NB47J passive cooler, but I was not too comfortable with the chipset temperatures I was getting. It would burn your fingers if held there for more than a few of seconds, which was surprising as the system otherwise is pretty cool running, ie. 120mm back and front, and also 92mm side fan. CPU temp idles around 29c, though it does have a massive Zalman 9500 cooler on my X2 4400 OCed to just under 5k. In the end I made my own passive chipset heatsink out of a old cpu heatsink, more than double the size of the NB47J though I did have to shape it using the dremel so it cleared components on the board. Generally as long as you dont overclock and the system case cooling is reasonable one of the small Zalman chipset coolers will be fine, I know a few users who have simply just unplugged the fan and not had any problems, though I would not recommend ones does this on a Nforce4 chipset. Mike Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You know you've been on the computer too long when... You start double clicking the TV remote! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remove YourNightgown to reply by email |
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