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George&Mary Skokan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Since my cpu fan seems noisy at times, I bought a replacement for celeron cpu.
> Problem is that it has 3 wires instead of the 2 that are on my present fan.
> Both have the black and red, but the new one has and additional blue one. The
> present plug fits over 3 pins in the socket, but one plug
> position(corresponding to the blue wire on the new fan) is blank. The box
> doesn't say anything about the function of the other wire....maybe some kind
> of sensor?? The ambios program identifies a 440LX chipset and a TG Florida
> motherboard. The machine is an emachine 500 and in warranty....only problem
> is they will exchange the whole tower and it would have been a bother. Anyone
> know if I can just pull the pin on the blue wire, or maybe just plug it in,
> since it would fit???
The extra wire is for the RPM sensor. Your motherboard probaby doesn't support
it. You can plug it in just fine. If you ever get a motherboard that has the
monitoring chip, you will be able to read the fan RPM, either through the BIOS,
or through one of the Windows based hardware monitoring programs available.
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