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System fan has failed!
thafireball
Member Posts: 200
in Hardware
Hey there,
Finally got my machine up and running but the case fan is moving at a extremely slow pace to the point that I recieved the system fan has failed! message after startup. What could be causing this and how can I fix it?
System:
M2N68 - LA Motherboard
550 Watt Rocketfish PS
AMD phenom Quadcore processor
6 Gig Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT
Comments
It could be as simple as that the fan is broken and needs to be replaced. Fortunately, fans are cheap to replace, provided that the case didn't do some weird custom thing that makes it impractical to replace the fan.
On the other hand, the case fan? As in, only one, for a system that might put out about 300 W if you include power supply inefficiencies? That might be fine if it's a 200 mm fan, but most cases with only one fan make it a small fan. Regardless, you should replace the fan, and perhaps buy a second case fan if there's a spot to put it.
I'd just replace it, not many reasons that it would work but spin too slowly that make any sense.