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 Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: What's with Abit and fans? |
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It seems many people have problems with chipset fans. The board I sent back
had a dead one, and I think the replacement board has one making noise now.
Makes me wonder about the boards with OTES.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:10 am Post subject: Re: What's with Abit and fans? |
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"xyz" said in news:1093hovo3tf7v2b@corp.supernews.com:
| Quote: | It seems many people have problems with chipset fans. The board I
sent back had a dead one, and I think the replacement board has one
making noise now. Makes me wonder about the boards with OTES.
BGC
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They wouldn't let you just send back the defective fan?
Mine started making noise after just 3 months. After posting here to
get some suggestions, I pulled it off and put on a passive and much
larger Zalman NB32J (http://test.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/nb32j.htm).
Got it cheap at www.bestbyte.net (http://snipurl.com/5kww) for only
$3.95 plus shipping. This was a retail package and even came with
thermal paste and syringes of thermal adhesive so you have your choice
of using the pins to hold down the heatsink and using the thermal paste
(best choice) or permanently affixing the heatsink to the chip (worse
choice).
If you have an oversized CPU heatsink (where it extends farther down
vertically), you might have to use the Zalman NB47J
(http://test.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/zm-nb47j.htm).
That eliminates one fan's noise (even when it was, well, as quiet as it
could be when new). If I get into overclocking, I'll have to then start
checking its temperature.
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xyz
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: What's with Abit and fans? |
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The board was replaced due to leaking capacitors, the dead fan was just a
side issue. I had already purchased a VGA chipset cooler locally and was
going to just take the fan off of it and replace the dead one. But, when I
started the process I noticed the bad caps so I didn't bother.
BGC
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| Quote: | "xyz" said in news:1093hovo3tf7v2b@corp.supernews.com:
It seems many people have problems with chipset fans. The board I
sent back had a dead one, and I think the replacement board has one
making noise now. Makes me wonder about the boards with OTES.
BGC
They wouldn't let you just send back the defective fan?
Mine started making noise after just 3 months. After posting here to
get some suggestions, I pulled it off and put on a passive and much
larger Zalman NB32J (http://test.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/nb32j.htm).
Got it cheap at www.bestbyte.net (http://snipurl.com/5kww) for only
$3.95 plus shipping. This was a retail package and even came with
thermal paste and syringes of thermal adhesive so you have your choice
of using the pins to hold down the heatsink and using the thermal paste
(best choice) or permanently affixing the heatsink to the chip (worse
choice).
If you have an oversized CPU heatsink (where it extends farther down
vertically), you might have to use the Zalman NB47J
(http://test.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/zm-nb47j.htm).
That eliminates one fan's noise (even when it was, well, as quiet as it
could be when new). If I get into overclocking, I'll have to then start
checking its temperature.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: What's with Abit and fans? |
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"xyz" said in news:10944sj4r7lru94@corp.supernews.com:
| Quote: | The board was replaced due to leaking capacitors, the dead fan was
just a side issue. I had already purchased a VGA chipset cooler
locally and was going to just take the fan off of it and replace the
dead one. But, when I started the process I noticed the bad caps so
I didn't bother.
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Which motherboard was it? How old was it (since you got it)?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: What's with Abit and fans? |
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The board is a KT7A, over 3 yrs old and out of warranty. I have another
post near this one about it, "KT7A - Abit replaced my out of warranty board
for free".
BGC
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| Quote: | "xyz" said in news:10944sj4r7lru94@corp.supernews.com:
The board was replaced due to leaking capacitors, the dead fan was
just a side issue. I had already purchased a VGA chipset cooler
locally and was going to just take the fan off of it and replace the
dead one. But, when I started the process I noticed the bad caps so
I didn't bother.
Which motherboard was it? How old was it (since you got it)?
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John@Smith.com
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 1:33 am Post subject: Re: What's with Abit and fans? |
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:50:48 -0500, "xyz" <replyto@thegroup.org>
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| Quote: | The board is a KT7A, over 3 yrs old and out of warranty. I have another
post near this one about it, "KT7A - Abit replaced my out of warranty board
for free".
BGC
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Yeah but they gave you a refurb right? That means the fan may go out
on that one unless they switched it to passive cooling too.
I got several Abit refurbs and an Asus refurb for warranty
replacements. The Abits are doing OK though they did have some
problems but the ASUS replacement - the fan went out on it after a few
months since it was old too.
I tried various things and ended up superglueing a blue orb on it with
thermal grease in the middle since the heatsink was a proprietary
type tray in which the usual cheapo VGA/MB chipset cooler fan wouldnt
fit on.
Before that Id tried thermal tape 4 times which didnt work well at
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