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unregestered
10-07-02, 08:36 AM
I picked up an 1800 athlon over the weekend and noticed it was running hot with stock HSF. I picked up a Volcano 7+ and poped it in. After installing the comp would not boot. It would finnish the mem test the freeze.

I have the HSF mounted correctly on the cpu with a nice thin layer of AC3. I have the yellow lead comming off the fan connected to fan header one. I have the option to not allow booting without fan turned off on my abit kt7a. I have the power lead connecting to the speed switch. I have the speed switch connected to my 300 watt power supply. there is another yellow lead comming off of the switch. I tried that on and off of fan header 2 but no luck.

I put my old HSF back on and it runs fine but I get 55c @ idle and 65-68C @ load. Any suggestions for getting my volcano working? Thanks
rustymaitland
10-07-02, 08:52 AM
does the fan spin when you boot the computer? stupid question i know.
unregestered
10-07-02, 09:07 AM
Yup the fan spins. I can also change the speed of the fan with the switch. perhaps it is sucking too much power. I will try keeping my old fan installed and simply plugging this into the power supply and see what happens when I get home.
rb26dett
10-07-02, 09:04 PM
make sure you did scratch your motherboard while removing the old hsf ... you can damage parts while doing it.
unregestered
10-08-02, 08:51 AM
Well I got home last night and left the old fan hooked up and plugged in the new volcano to see if it was the power supply. Well it booted up. I then made one more attempt to install the volcano fan. I mounted it and the machine booted up. Running at 35C idle 41C under load with the fan on LOW speed! I have no idea what I did wrong the first time but it is workin fine now.
CrystalMethod
10-08-02, 11:14 AM
There may have been some thing keeping the RPM lead (yellow wire), from making complete contact with the MB's fan header. By putting it on and taking it of a couple of times, you may have removed what ever was keeping it from making contact with the header. As long as the fan is spinning you're all good.

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