Power plub on MB for CPU fan.

[flackt]

I just RMA'd the second board in a month, because the plug on the mother board for the CPU fan lost power.

Two may not seem high, except I only Custom build a few systems a month.

They were both different brands.

Has anyone else had a problem like this.

I've noticed that alot of high end CPU fans get their power directly from the power supply. Maybe there is a good reason for that.

[Garak]

I think its due to the fact that some cpu fans pull a larger current off the board which leads to shorting or overloading the board, I have only seen it once, and the board didnt last much longer after that If the board was under warrenty, I would have RMA'd it myself, Also, what model CPU fan was it you were using?

G.

[flackt]

Unbranded Generic Fans, but they were rated higher than the CPU's I put them on.

[Garak]

those generic fans may have been the issue, I would just use cooler master or another well known manutfacture from now on (i dont like using unbranded things especially when it comes to cooling.)

G.

[Orangeman]

The Same thing happened to me. I had two fan sockets in my motherboard, and I found out he HARD way that neither of them worked after about a week. When I looked at my cpu temp and it said 152 degrees I thought something was wrong with the meter. Then strange error messages started happening to my machine.

I took it into a tech and he discovered that neither of my fan sockets worked. Thereafter he used an adapter that sticks into the CDROM drive and the plugs into the fan. Haven't had a problem since.

I thought my mobo was cheap but evidently this happens quite a lot.

Thanks,
Orangeman