n440bx Fan connectors

[ottothecow]

I've got an Intel n440bx server board and it has two fan connectors. They look like the normal 3-pin fan headers except they have two tabs that get in the way of normal fan plugs. I cut out the little tabs so that my fans could plug in (92mm Delta Sensflows) but they wont spin up. I didnt test the connections with a multimeter but that can be done later.

What kind of fans are supposed to be used with these plugs or what can I do to get them to work?

 

[imported_Kiwi]

I had one of those, with a P-II/400 cpu, back in the Win95 era. Mine was a POS, and I never did get full value from my investment. But when I gave it away a couple of years ago, Intel still had a downloadable copy of the manual on their web site. I never killed that bookmark (Mozilla uses bookmarks, and I seriously hate IE), and just within the last month, ran across it and it was still working. If you need it, maybe I can dig down and locate it again.

The case mine was in had no mounts for any fans, and it didn't seem to run hot at all.

 

[ottothecow]

From the manual it appears that the +12v and the Fan sensor lines are swiched on these connections. Should I just swap the wires on the fan or might this be bad and I should just run them off a 12v lead from the PSU