Problem: MSI K7T Pro2-A or my Vantec Socket A Heatsink?

[Marqui]

Here is the problem:

I have the above mentioned motherboard and heatsink. I had been running the Vantec fine for about 2 weeks, until I noticed that the FAN was not spinning anymore (NOTE: this was connected to the CPU FAN Connection on the motherboard). So I hooked up another fan to the connector and still no power going to it. So I was pretty sure it was the CPU FAN Connection that just went dead. So I proceed to connect my Vantec fan to the other onboard power connection left (which is the CHASSIS FAN connection). This too ran good for about 2 weeks, then just recently died on me, same diagnosis as the first connector. Both connectors are dead. I am sending back the motherboard to replace it with a working one. My question is, has anyone ever experienced this and/or can the Vantec fan be the culprit and is responsible for frying the connectors or is it just a bad motherboard? Having both die made me think that the heatsink/fan my be part of the problem.

Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks

Marqui

 

[Davegod75]

some fans can draw too much power from those mobo fan headers and cause them to burn out. Never heard of a vantec fan doing that though