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Fan Speed and Temp AMD-4400+

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ctarmen2

Junior Member
Hey guys,

This is my first post, I've gotten a lot of great information here and think I may have a problem. I decided to take try and clean all of my cables up a bit. So I unplugged everything and ran the cables under the mother board and behind drive bays. Well I booted up my machine and upon initial boot up the bios came up w/ a CPU fan error. It said it was under speed or failed. I looked and the fan was spinning so I turned it off and reconnected the connector. I turned it back on and it booted right up, no problem. I got into ASUS probe and it shows that my CPU fan speeds are right around 1200 RPMs. My temps seem a little higher than normal. At just idle they are hoovering at around 42-44. Typically they are in the 38-39 range at idle. I ran 3dMark and I am getting temps at 47-49 with a speed of around 1900 RPMs. I'm not sure if this is the best program to use, so please advise otherwise. I am using the stock HSF.

My main worry is the CPU fan speed. I would think that it should be higher, but maybe I'm way off. Thanks for any information. I've gotten a lot of great info and look forward to getting more!

System Specs:
2GB Memory
AMD 4400+
ASUS A8N SLI Premium
eVGA 7800GT

Thanks,

Colin
 
The fan on the retail AMD heatsink is thermally controlled. As the air around it heats up the fan increases its speed. Your Asus board also has a feature called Q-Fan which can directly control the speed of the CPU fan based on its temp. Your temps are perfectly fine, dynamically controlled fans are a good thing unless you like unnecessary noise
 
Thanks for the welcome.

I have one more question. I haven't changed any settings and I am still getting an error upon boot up that says that the CPU FAN speed is too low or that it has failed. Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks,

Colin
 
Do you have the "Smart fan" option enabled in the BIOS? It might be called something different in your BIOS, though.
 
Originally posted by: ctarmen2
Thanks for the welcome.

I have one more question. I haven't changed any settings and I am still getting an error upon boot up that says that the CPU FAN speed is too low or that it has failed. Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks,

Colin
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Well like I said the fan is thermally controlled. So if it happens on a cold boot when system has the lowest case temp the fan might be running too low for the board to detect it. If thats the case I wouldn't really worry about it too much. Sometimes a BIOS update will address it if you want to check that.
 
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