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KT266a chipset fan

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wetcat007

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I have a Shuttle AK31A motherboard with a northbridge chipset fan that seems to be going bad, it makes odd noise and doesnt always start up with out any help (sometimes) I was wondering where i could find a replacement fan, I checked thermaltake.com for any, but apparrently they do not make them. I've heard that other people have been having problems with the fan that this board comes with, so anyways to the point I was wondering what would be the best replacment fan?

-Mark
 
Originally posted by: wetcat007
I have a Shuttle AK31A motherboard with a northbridge chipset fan that seems to be going bad, it makes odd noise and doesnt always start up with out any help (sometimes) I was wondering where i could find a replacement fan, I checked thermaltake.com for any, but apparrently they do not make them. I've heard that other people have been having problems with the fan that this board comes with, so anyways to the point I was wondering what would be the best replacment fan?

-Mark
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Unplug it and be done with it. You don't need it and new boards are not including fans specifically for this reason. They are usually pretty cheap and have the lifespan of a mosquito. There was a thread about this in mobos or cases and cooling. If you really, really, really wanted to replace this fan, you could get a ThermalTake Blue Orb. It fit on my KT133A, don't see why it wouldn't fit on a KT266A.

Chiz

Edit: Oh yah, mine died a few months ago and I'm running a 1700+ T-bred A nicely OC'd at 1.8ghz (150 x 12) (will be pushing this once I get a locked AGP/PCI with my Asus A7N8X deluxe).
 
I worked on one of those shuttle boards and that chipset fan started getting noisy too. I just disconnected the header and all has been well since. No noise, no problems. It looks like the fan really isn't needed.

- J
 
Originally posted by: John
I was wondering where i could find a replacement fan
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Contact Shuttle for a replacement fan.
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Yeah im not going to bother asking them for one, cuz they'll give me the same bad one, I think i'll look for a new one or try it with out it, it has such a tiny heatsink though without the fan....
 
A fan is not required.

I had a Asus A7V266-E motherboard, it came with a fan on the northbridge. I sent it back to the store where I bought it after a catastrophic HSF failure (fried the CPU and damaged the Motherboard). The replacement board I got was an Asus A7V266-E rev 2.0. It is based on the layout of the A7V333 board, and as such has no fan on the northbridge. The heat sink is larger however.

In most cases the air coming off your CPU's HSF will adequate to cool the Northbridge even with a small heatsink on it.

Your best replacement fan is no fan (from a cost stand-point anyways). If you are really looking for a fan try Bigfoot Computers under their 40mm fan section.
 
Go find a Pentium or 486 with only a heatsink and no fan, rip off the heatsink, file down any edges that might prevent it laying flat (some of that era of heatsinks had "lips" to keep the heatsink from sliding off easily), stick it on the northbridge with thermal tape. Tremendous surface area there, relatively.
 
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