K7T Pro 2-a Fan header dies after updating to 1.9 bios

[tnguyen]

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! My case fan header died after I updated to the 1.9 bios through MSI's Live Update. Is this a normal problem with the bios or is this something strange?

Any help at all would be helpful.

Thanks

 

[tnguyen]

HELP!!!

 

[JimmyZ]

I'm at 1.9 and both headers work fine....could be a coiniendence??

JImmy

 

[Davegod75]

there's like three newer bios' than ver 1.9. why don't you try the newest one. ver 2.2

 

[Mem]

The latest version using LiveBios is 2.1,if you want 2.2 you have to use the bootdisk way.

 

[tnguyen]

Well, I tried pretty much all the bios's. Tried 2.2, 2.0, and at the moment I'm using the overclocker's bios. No luck with the fans. Can anyone send me a link or tell me which bios my board shipped with? I just bought the board recently. Is 1.8 the original shipping bios?

The header that died on me was being split between two fans with a Y connector. Could this have shorted the header, or should this not even be a problem?

Thanks for the responses so far.

 

[Mattster]

It is NOT recommended to split the fan headers on the motherboard to power two fans. So more than likely, your header is done for. They are designed to power only one fan, and not two. Most manufacturers do not recommend running more than one fan per header. Sure, there are splitters available, but you do have to consider how much power the fans draw together. I have seen headers on some boards that will short because just one fan is drawing more than the header can supply.

Hope this helps.... :Q

 

[RacerX]

I have had fan headers die before on Abit BH6 boards, this sounds like what happened. I doubt the BIOS had anything to do with it, other than it happened around the same time as the flash. What kind of fans were you running off the Y-splitter? If they were two case fans then that's bad news. However I am running my SuperOrb (which has 2 internal fans) off the cpu header using a splitter ...since MSI stupidly only included one cpu header. I hope it doesn't fail :|

 

[tnguyen]

I was running 2 case fans... Well, looks like my header's dead. Thanks for the help guys.