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I'm trying to quieten down an old Compaq ap400. I've found a much
quieter fan to fit into it but the new one only has two wires from it and the old noisy one has three. The connector on the motherboard has four prongs with a gap, something like this: | | | | The connector wires a black (gap) red (gap) yellow Now, can I just connect the black and red wires, or is the yellow wire a sensor or something? I was also considering wiring it up to a molex and reducing it to a 7v instead of a 12v, making it even quieter. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Andy |
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On 6 Mar 2006 09:14:24 -0800, "Andy Cooper"
wrote: I'm trying to quieten down an old Compaq ap400. I've found a much quieter fan to fit into it but the new one only has two wires from it and the old noisy one has three. The connector on the motherboard has four prongs with a gap, something like this: | | | | The connector wires a black (gap) red (gap) yellow Now, can I just connect the black and red wires, or is the yellow wire a sensor or something? The typical motherboard pins for a 3 pin header supply (looking at it in same orientation as you are the fan plug & wires): Ground | 12V Pwr | RPM On 4 pin headers (presumably following Intel's standard), there's a PWM control on the last pin. The yellow wire IS a sensor, but you can just connect the black and red wires. The safest course of action would be to take a multimeter and measure the voltage and continuity to ground but without those all I can do is tell you the standard header and that you could also check Compaq's website if you want more confirmation. In general the fan you already had could already be considered good evidence and it's reasonable to just plug in the new fan and see if the issue mentioned below is present- that the system alerts that there is no RPM signal. I was also considering wiring it up to a molex and reducing it to a 7v instead of a 12v, making it even quieter. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Yes you could do that instead. It is fairly self-explanitory, wiring the positive to 12V and negative to 5V. The remaining issue then is whether the motherboard, when it detects no RPM signal from the fan, displays an annoying alert and/or requires you press a key to continue, or if it is set to power off the system in such a (lack of RPM) event. If this situation is present when trying it, see if the bios allows disabling this feature (I've no idea how Compaq might've worded the setting). |
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Thanks kony. The error bleep/notice was one of the things I was concerned about, I think it's a 'critical something or other warning', but i'll have to address that if and when it happens. Thankds again. Andy |
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Hmm. I tried it and get the critical error and even though the fan is
running (on two wires), the bios says the fan has failed. anyone know a workaround please? thanks , Andy |
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On 8 Mar 2006 01:08:49 -0800, "Andy Cooper"
wrote: Hmm. I tried it and get the critical error and even though the fan is running (on two wires), the bios says the fan has failed. anyone know a workaround please? thanks , Andy Only two options- either the bios allows disabling this (or a more comprehensive error message(s), or you'd have to get a fan with the RPM (sometimes called "tach") output. Well there is another option, if you have another fan in the system with RPM output, you could just plug that other fan into this fan header and power the current fan from an alternate. |
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kony wrote: On 8 Mar 2006 01:08:49 -0800, "Andy Cooper" wrote: Hmm. I tried it and get the critical error and even though the fan is running (on two wires), the bios says the fan has failed. anyone know a workaround please? thanks , Andy Only two options- either the bios allows disabling this (or a more comprehensive error message(s), or you'd have to get a fan with the RPM (sometimes called "tach") output. Well there is another option, if you have another fan in the system with RPM output, you could just plug that other fan into this fan header and power the current fan from an alternate. Ok , that gives me some ideas, thanks a lot kony ) |
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