CPU fan below threshhold?

[Dswissmiss]

My Asus Probe 2 indicates that my CPU fan threshhold is below 2200RPM's and spinning at 1506RPM's ...anything I should do after restarting the comp?
The CPU (p4 2.0) is running at 42C which is a bit above usual.

thanx
Dswissmiss

[HpiSavage21]

My Asus Probe says that my Power Fan is below threshold also. Its spinning and have nto had a problem with it..it is just that my Powersupply does have ahve a sensor thats why is says that,

[Dswissmiss]

Yeah, I've always had the power fan and chasis fan monitor turned off because it couldn't read the speeds and kept alrerting me, but I've never had problems with the CPU fan.

[Cricket]

Originally posted by Dswissmiss My Asus Probe 2 indicates that my CPU fan threshhold is below 2200RPM's and spinning at 1506RPM's ...anything I should do after restarting the comp?

1506 RPM's? That seems kind of slow to me...stock Intel heatsink fans usually spin around 2750 or so. Maybe the fan is going or maybe the CPU fan header is going.

Have you opened the case to check the fan for dust build up?

Cricket

[Dswissmiss]

I just took out the fan and heatsink (stock HSF) and cleaned the dust off of it, but I still get RPM's of around 1500.
Whats the difference between a fan and a fan header?
And how dangerous is it to keep using the computer? I have an ASUS P4s533 motherboard with some feature that turns off the comp when CPU temps get too hot. I'm running at 35C right now, just after bootup, so I guess thats not much of a problem.

Are there any voltage settings I could play around with, and how could I pinpoint the problem.

Thanx again
Dswissmiss

[Cricket]

Originally posted by Dswissmiss Whats the difference between a fan and a fan header?

The fan header is the thing on the motherboard that you plug the fan power connector onto.

Originally posted by Dswissmiss And how dangerous is it to keep using the computer?

No real danger since P4's have a built in thermal protection circuit that will throttle back the CPU speed to reduce the amount of heat it generates to keep the CPU from frying itself.

Originally posted by Dswissmiss Are there any voltage settings I could play around with, and how could I pinpoint the problem.

Off hand, I can't think of anything in BIOS that would change the voltage to the fan header. What you could do is get a RPM adapter that allows you to connect the CPU heatsink fan directly to a power supply 4 pin power connector and still connect the RPM sensor wire to the fan header (in case your motherboard is one of those that won't start up if it doesn't sense a CPU fan connected to the CPU fan header. You can get one from 2CoolTek.

Cricket

[Dswissmiss]

Hi.
I'm planning to buy a few more things for my pc and have decided on www.directron.com. I was just wondering if they have the adapter on their site too. I found this http://store.yahoo.com/directron/y3pin.html and I already have a cable connecting a psu to a female 3 pin.

thank you for your help
Dswissmiss


or this http://store.yahoo.com/directron/3to4adapter.html

or is it this...sorry http://store.yahoo.com/directron/3splitter.html