Used three pin fan on two pin board

trs80

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Jan 29, 2001
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I used a p3 fan in place of a celeron fan, and the puter will not boot. Did I fry the board?
 

ddiccico

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Jan 10, 2001
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This should work fine. The third pin is just for fan RPM monitoring. Did you use the correct two pins? Red is +12V, black ground and blue is for the fan speed. Did you use the red and blue instead?