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Hi, you mentioned this to be a homemade system
with all 3 fans plugging directly into the motherboard.
I'm geussing these are the common 3 pin fan connectors
on the motherboard, which are hot, ground, and signal.
Any chance you're going from signal voltage to ground
instead of hot to ground ? This would cause a bi-polar
transistor to fail, eventually. To test this, parallel
your fans off a hard drive connector and ensure the fans
are still good. Hopefully, your cpu is in fact locking up
do to the heat and not because of a damaged motherboard
transistor.
I had this happen to me on a customer's cyrix system.
When their fans stopped working the level 2 external
cache fried. To determine this I disabled the L2 cache in
BIOS and the system would work, but slow.
-yui shin
----- Original Message -----
Tim Klymkow :
> I have a ABIT BX6R2 motherboard in my homemade PC. Everything has
been
> working fine (months) until last night.
>
> The three fans (2 case, cpu) that are plugged into the motherboard
have
> stopped working. The PC itself stills works fine, but will freeze
when the
> CPU temp gets too high.
>
> I have not been able to figure out what may have caused this to
happen. Can
> not find anything in the manual or ABIT's website. Nothing in the
BIOS
> seems to make a difference either.
>
> Any help with this problem would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
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