Fan Header Issue

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Last night when I was messing around with my rig, I noticed that one of my fans wasn't running right. At startup it would run fine, but after 30sec or so before windows would load, the fan would just stop. I had it plugged into the chassis fan #1 and at first I thought that the fan might have died. So I plugged the fan into chassis fan #2 and it worked fine, so I knew it wasn?t the fan. I started to worry that I might have actually shorted out the chassis fan #1 header, so I tested another fan on that header and the same result. I then decided to go into the BIOS and look at the fans settings thinking it might have something to do with that. I changed the ?Chassis Fan? setting to manual, which made the chassis fans run at 100%. I restarted the computer and bingo the fan that is hooked up to chassis fan #1 works fine, so I figured it was the setting in the BIOS. My question is, is this really an issue, I know I should probably not have it running on 100%, but I just don?t understand why the chassis fan #1 doesn?t run when in the BIOS it?s set to SmartFan. Also I had question about the AUX fan header. Right now my 8800GTX blocks it from view, I am able to hook up a fan to it, but I was wondering if any one new if the 8800GTX sits right on top of it or not. It looks like a tight fit and I want to make sure nothing is getting cracked or bent. Any help would be great. Thanks for the advice in advanced.

 

[Pez D Spencer]

I have the same board and I had to do the same thing.