Ok, this is what i have done:
I have my 80mm cpu fan connected to the powersupple. It's a fan that offers RPM monitoring. I saw my power supply used the ground cable and the RPM cable to plug into the motherboard(does not read the RPM in bios, only in OS hardware monitor). So, i soldered a connection for my fan in the same fasion (where it's plugged in to the ps 12v plug, and, i soldered a wire from the ground of the fan(which is still connected to 12v plug) and soldered a wire to the RPM connection, then connected the two wires to the proper motherboard header.
This is the problem:
When i go into bios, once again it doesnt monitor the fan speed, but now my bios crashes only when i go into the PC health(no crash in other areas of bios). And again, it shows up fine in the OS hardware monitor software.
What i think might fix the problem:
im thinking that the only reason that it does not work is because the positive led on the motherboard header is not being used. So, I figure that if i put something that will use the power of the header that it might read the speed correctly without any other side effects!
What i would like to do:
Solder a LED(light) to the positive and negative to the header with the fan connection, this way only minimal power is used from the motherboard header and i get proper monitoring from the bios.
why i did this:
So i can set the "shut down if fan fails". I have my computer set up with two power supplies( a 350/250) to reduce the strain on the main ps for overclocking. What happened was(edit) that the cpu fan was connected to the 2nd ps and someone turned it off thinking they would turn off the entire computer. Low and behold, my unique AMD Athlon XP 1600+ that does 1.7Gigs(was @ 1.67 @ the time) got up to and possibly above 90 degrees C. I could smell the silicon burning!!. When i turned on the computer, it was 80 degrees C. This is after about 10-15 sec of cooling with just the fan turned on, not computer. Silicon like that doesnt come around very often, so you can imagine my anger!!!!! Let me remind you that this is an air coold system. It also does 1.8Ghz but only Battlefield 1942 wont let me play it at that speed, everything else works fine. Now if you thing that this is unbelievable, read this, It still works!!!! even at 1.67Ghz, not pushing it any harder now... too scared. I always thought that it couldn't(edit) take heat above 90-95c. Man am i lucky!!!
What i need from you guys:
tell me how to solve this problem, and if my solution is a good idea???
thanks all for any help!
I have my 80mm cpu fan connected to the powersupple. It's a fan that offers RPM monitoring. I saw my power supply used the ground cable and the RPM cable to plug into the motherboard(does not read the RPM in bios, only in OS hardware monitor). So, i soldered a connection for my fan in the same fasion (where it's plugged in to the ps 12v plug, and, i soldered a wire from the ground of the fan(which is still connected to 12v plug) and soldered a wire to the RPM connection, then connected the two wires to the proper motherboard header.
This is the problem:
When i go into bios, once again it doesnt monitor the fan speed, but now my bios crashes only when i go into the PC health(no crash in other areas of bios). And again, it shows up fine in the OS hardware monitor software.
What i think might fix the problem:
im thinking that the only reason that it does not work is because the positive led on the motherboard header is not being used. So, I figure that if i put something that will use the power of the header that it might read the speed correctly without any other side effects!
What i would like to do:
Solder a LED(light) to the positive and negative to the header with the fan connection, this way only minimal power is used from the motherboard header and i get proper monitoring from the bios.
why i did this:
So i can set the "shut down if fan fails". I have my computer set up with two power supplies( a 350/250) to reduce the strain on the main ps for overclocking. What happened was(edit) that the cpu fan was connected to the 2nd ps and someone turned it off thinking they would turn off the entire computer. Low and behold, my unique AMD Athlon XP 1600+ that does 1.7Gigs(was @ 1.67 @ the time) got up to and possibly above 90 degrees C. I could smell the silicon burning!!. When i turned on the computer, it was 80 degrees C. This is after about 10-15 sec of cooling with just the fan turned on, not computer. Silicon like that doesnt come around very often, so you can imagine my anger!!!!! Let me remind you that this is an air coold system. It also does 1.8Ghz but only Battlefield 1942 wont let me play it at that speed, everything else works fine. Now if you thing that this is unbelievable, read this, It still works!!!! even at 1.67Ghz, not pushing it any harder now... too scared. I always thought that it couldn't(edit) take heat above 90-95c. Man am i lucky!!!
What i need from you guys:
tell me how to solve this problem, and if my solution is a good idea???
thanks all for any help!
