Funny fan story...and a question.

[tomstevens26]

So here I am, sitting at my PC the other night with my wife on her PC which is next to me. Her PC (old celeron 400) starts playing an alarm sound and the power light starts blinking. I check the temp and it was extremely high (don't remember how much but that it was a temp alarm). I shut the PC down, fire it back up and noticed the CPU fan has quit working. I happen to have an old fan laying around so I take the old fan off, put the new one on, etc... Fire up the PC and the new fan doesn't start spinning. My first thought is that perhaps the fan connector has died. Something just tells me to poke the fan and see if it starts spinning. Well, it does! So I shut the PC down, power it back on, and the fan doesn't start spinning. I poke it again and it starts spinning. Geez... I go through this procedure a few times and can reproduce the same effects...power on, no fan. Poke it, and it spins fine. It has been running fine for the last few days but the minute I have to power it off and then back on I know I'll have to pop the case and poke the fan!

Any ideas? Is it just not getting enough juice to get it started?

Tom

 

[BeauJangles]

Yea, sounds like it isn't getting enough power to start spinning... maybe the fan header is going. I would just recommend plugging it directly into your powersupply.

 

[Alex]

lol

wish i could help ya! *bump*

 

[CTho9305]

i noticed my 486 did that too when i was playing with it a couple months ago. maybe its the fan going bad?

 

[Looney]

How exactly would you connect a fan directly to the powersupply?

 

[Rickr]

Try peeling the sticker up on the fan and putting a drop of oil on the spindle, then putting the sticker back.

 

[flexy]

these cheapo fans have the tendency to stop spinning/get dirty after a certain amount of time.

You *can* dismantle the whole thing..clean it...apply oil whatever....put it together again....then it works for maybe a month..and then it'll stop spinning again...especially if its one of those ultra cheapos which dont even have ball bearing...

I'd recommend getting a new fan !!!